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MOSIX Clusters of Surplus Computers for Providing Common Network Services and Applications
Details active project to illustrate use of MOSIX to create clusters of surplus machines that can be used to provide network services, application resources.
http://ralphie.perlmonk.org/mosix/
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Sprite
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
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/sprite/sprite.html
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Hurricane
hierarchically clustered OS implemented on Hector multiprocessor; manages system resources in clusters, using tight coupling within clusters, loose coupling across clusters. Succeeded by Tornado.
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/hurricane.html
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Tornado
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.
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/tornado.html
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GLUnix
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, an
http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Glunix/glunix.html
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AgentOS
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 computin
http://bolero.ics.uci.edu/agentos/
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AgentOS: Agent-based Distributed Operating System for Mobile Networks
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.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-2/agentos.html
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WebOS
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,
http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/issg/webos/
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XOS
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.
http://free.prohosting.com/~xos/
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AtomsNet
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, distribut
http://atoms.sourceforge.net/
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