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"Standardized" and/or openly accepted infrastructures for creating and deploying distributed applications.

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• Apple Advanced Computation Group - Xgrid

  http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/technology/xgrid.html
  Clustering software intended primarily for scientific researchers. Mac OS X only.

• Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)

  http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
  Software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources, allowing participants to participate in multiple projects. Software downloads, links to active projects, news, message boards, and other information.

• Clustopium Cluster Server/Client System

  http://home.iprimus.com.au/yuhanov/clbs/clbs.html
  The next step to distributed computer systems, A complete Java framework for implementing MultiNodal processor farms. There is a demo, but the full implementation is for sale.

• Cosm

  http://www.mithral.com/projects/cosm/
  Provides an infrastructure for true distributed computing projects. This includes applications as well as APIs for users to design and build their own projects.

• Distributed Computing with HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL

  http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/distributed-computing
  Learn how various protocols fit into the big picture of the distributed computing arena.

• Economy Grid

  http://www.gridbus.org/
  Research on the development of economic resource management and scheduling system for global grid computing. Description and papers.

• GridRepublic

  http://www.gridrepublic.org/
  A non-profit organization created to provide supercomputing resources to public interest research, by use of volunteer distributed computing.

• IBM Distributed Computing Environment

  http://www-01.ibm.com/software/network/dce/
  IBM's product offering based on the DCE open standard for distributed computing.

• IBM Distributed Computing Platform (DCP)

  http://www-935.ibm.com/services/au/index.wss/summary/igs/a1019937
  A standardised approach for effective management of large numbers of desktops, devices, servers, applications and LAN’s from one centralised point.

• Internet Based Distributed Super Computer

  http://members.tripod.com/distributedcomputer/
  Build a supercomputer using wasted CPU cycles of home and office computers. (A fledgling project looking for a sponsor and participants.)

• JXTA

  https://java.net/projects/jxta/
  Language- and platform-independent protocol for peer-to-peer networking, developed by Sun. Initial implementation in Java. [Open Source, BSD-like]

• Legion

  http://legion.virginia.edu/
  Generic middleware for creating a worldwide virtual computer.

• MacDevCenter.com: Integrating Xgrid into Cocoa Applications, Part 1

  http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/11/xgrid_pt1.html
  In this first of two articles exploring Xgrid, Drew McCormack provides a little background information, then moves to installation, and finishes off with a command-line script for distributing compilation using Xgrid.

• MacDevCenter.com: Integrating Xgrid into Cocoa Applications, Part 2

  http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/18/xgrid_pt2.html
  In Part 1, Drew McCormack showed how to install and start using Xgrid. Now in Part 2, he covers integration with Cocoa.

• Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms809340.aspx
  Protocol that enables software components to communicate over a network in a reliable, secure, and efficient manner.

• Object Management Group

  http://www.omg.org/
  Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP.

• OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)

  http://www.opengroup.org/dce/
  An industry-standard, vendor-neutral set of distributed computing technologies. Provides scalable organization of users and shared data, along with basic services such as security and naming.

• Q²ADPZ - Collaborative Computing

  http://qadpz.idi.ntnu.no/
  An Open-Source project that provides software to distribute work over many computers in a network. The machines are only used during idle-time.

• ZetaGrid

  http://www.zetagrid.net/
  An open source and platform independent grid system that uses idle CPU cycles from participating computers. ZetaGrid solves one problem in practice: numerical verification of the Riemann Hypothesis.

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