Distributed

Media publications

• The Brave New OS of the Future - Brief, simple layman's treatment of Carnegie Mellon University Odyssey project; IBM Research's Autonomic Computing initiative; Microsoft Farsite project. [CNN.com] (Published 2002.02.13)

	GLUnix URL: http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Glunix/glunix.html ODP description: Global Layer Unix; technology trends in high-speed, low-latency LANs suggest convergence of hardware in Massively Parallel Processors, MPPs, and Networks of Workstations, NOWs. Relative to many MPPs, NOWs offer more cost-effectiveness and scalability, and less hardware and software development time. Soon, the main difference between NOWs and MPPs will be OS software. Page title: GLUnix Home Page
	AgentOS: Agent-based Distributed Operating System for Mobile Networks URL: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-2/agentos.html ODP description: Agent-based communication models show great promise to operate in unpredictable, metamorphic environments, such as mobile computing networks. Excellent basic explanations, clear arguments, well reasoned; from Crossroads, ACM student magazine. Page title: AgentOS Page description: Agent Based Distributed Operating System for Mobile Networks; ACM Crossroads 5-2
	AtomsNet URL: http://atoms.sourceforge.net/ ODP description: Modular object-oriented application to index files across networks. Has plug-in type data retrieval system, webserver, peer-to-peer connections for network-wide information gathering, retrieval; has features of OSs, database management systems, distributed networking. Open Source, GPL.
	Plan B Operating System URL: http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/ls/planb.html ODP description: An operating system that lets applications be built simpler. The system selects and combines resources from the network semi-automatically. Page title: Plan B 4th edition
	MIT LCS PDOS URL: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/ ODP description: Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Group; research focus: extensible and flexible system services: filesystems, networking, languages. Projects: 'C, Chord, Click, Exokernel (Exopc), Grid, Prolac, RON, and SFS. Funding: DARPA, NSF; AT&T, IBM, Intel. Many open source downloads. Page title: MIT CSAIL Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems
	The V Distributed System URL: http://eia.udg.es/~teo/sd/documents/articles/p314-cheriton.pdf ODP description: Research OS for a cluster of computer workstations connected by fast network; structured as a small distributed kernel, and set of service modules, runtime libraries, and commands. Stanford University.
	Hive URL: http://www-flash.stanford.edu/OS/sosp95-hive/hive.html ODP description: Distributed Unix operating system for Stanford FLASH multiprocessor; survives hardware and software faults, performance near commercial Unix. Arranged as internal system of independent kernels (cells) for reliability, scalability. Page title: Hive - SOSP'95
	Hurricane URL: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/hurricane.html ODP description: hierarchically clustered OS implemented on Hector multiprocessor; manages system resources in clusters, using tight coupling within clusters, loose coupling across clusters. Succeeded by Tornado.
	AgentOS URL: http://bolero.ics.uci.edu/agentos/ ODP description: Mobile agent system for ubiquitous computing; new way to cope with the wide-area, large-scale ubiquitous computing environment of near future. Allows access to personal and collaborative computing services anywhere, via varied desktop and mobile computing devices.
	WebOS URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/issg/webos/ ODP description: Gives distributed OS services needed to build applications that are wide-area, highly available, incrementally scalable, dynamically reconfiguring, with mechanisms for: resource discovery, global namespace, remote process execution, resource management, authentication, security.
	Institute for Distributed Systems: IVS URL: http://ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/index_english.shtml ODP description: Researches distributed and realtime operating systems, communication, software engineering. Part of Department of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany. English, Deutsch. Page title: IVS HomePage
	E1 URL: http://www.e1os.org/ ODP description: A distributed operating system based on the concepts of object replication, component model support and persistence. It consists of a L4 microkernel and a set of distributed objects acting at the user level. [Open source] Page title: E1 Distributed Operating System Page description: The E1 operating system is aimed to provide efficient support for reliable distributed computing, based on object replication, component model support and persistence.
	YouOS URL: https://www.youos.com/ ODP description: Allows running diverse programs in web browser, integrated program development and management, based on HTML and JavaScript. Descriptions, FAQ, weblog, forum, developer support, tutorial, policy, contacts. Open source. Page title: Welcome to YouOS. Page description: YouOS is a web operating system.
	V Operating System URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(operating_system) ODP description: Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia. Page title: V (operating system) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	MOSIX URL: http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/ ODP description: Software package to enhance Unix kernels (7 so far) and Linux with cluster computing abilities. Lets any size cluster of x86-based workstations and servers work cooperatively as if part of one system. [Open Source, GPL]
	MOSIX Clusters of Surplus Computers for Providing Common Network Services and Applications URL: http://ralphie.perlmonk.org/mosix/ ODP description: Details active project to illustrate use of MOSIX to create clusters of surplus machines that can be used to provide network services, application resources. Page title: Mosix clusters of surplus computers for providing common network services and applications.
	Tornado URL: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/tornado.html ODP description: Object-oriented operating system for large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Minimizes data sharing via careful design: often eliminates data sharing even when sharing appears natural. Successor to Hurricane.
	Virtual-OS URL: http://www.virtual-os.com/ ODP description: To be AJAX-based, distributed web desktop; forms a shared online windowing environment to promote collaboration and simplify content management. Forum based site.
	XOS URL: http://free.prohosting.com/~xos/ ODP description: Distributed operating system, to be fully object-oriented, preemptively multithreaded/tasked, event/message-driven. Little code yet, but design documents and links are interesting, useful reading. Page title: The official XOS Homepage Page description: OS-Developement
	Quarks URL: http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/quarks.html ODP description: Simple, yet efficient distributed shared memory (DSM) system; a user-level library plus header files supports DSM on groups of Unix workstations. Runs on 4.3BSD/M68k, HP-UX/PA-RISC, IRIX 5.2/MIPS, SunOS 4.1/SPARC. [Open Source, public domain]
	SUMO URL: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/sumo/ ODP description: SUpport for Multimedia in Operating systems, Lancaster University: microkernel OS with facilities to support distributed realtime and multimedia applications and ODP-based multimedia distributed application platforms. Page title: SUMO Home Page
	Sprite URL: ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/sprite/sprite.html ODP description: Distributed OS gives one system image to/over a networked cluster of workstations, research project, Berkeley, John Outerhoust group; high file system performance via client and server caching, process migration to use idle machines; testbed for research in file systems (log-structured, striped, RAID), crash recovery.