Distributed

AgentOS

bolero.ics.uci.edu

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 collabo…

60 visits Feb 2, 2024 Details

AgentOS: Agent-based Distributed Operating System for Mobile Networks

acm.org

Agent-based communication models show great promise to operate in unpredictable, metamorphic environments, such as mobile computing networks. Excellent basic explanations, clear ar…

120 visits Jun 14, 2024 Details

AtomsNet

atoms.sourceforge.net

Modular object-oriented application to index files across networks. Consists of plug-in type data retrieval system, webserver, peer-to-peer connections for network-wide information…

306 visits Feb 22, 2025 Details

E1

e1os.org

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 object…

441 visits Jun 11, 2024 Details

GLUnix

now.cs.berkeley.edu

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. Rel…

182 visits May 20, 2025 Details

GUIDE

sardes.inrialpes.fr

Grenoble Universities Integrated Distributed Environment. Object-oriented distributed OS to develop and operate distributed applications on local area networks of workstations and …

85 visits Mar 2, 2026 Details

Hive

-flash.stanford.edu

Distributed Unix operating system for Stanford FLASH multiprocessor; survives hardware and software faults, performance near commercial Unix. Arranged as internal system of indepen…

454 visits Jan 22, 2025 Details

Hurricane

eecg.toronto.edu

hierarchically clustered OS implemented on Hector multiprocessor; manages system resources in clusters, using tight coupling within clusters, loose coupling across clusters. Succee…

420 visits Dec 9, 2024 Details

Institute for Distributed Systems: IVS

ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de

Researches distributed and realtime operating systems, communication, software engineering. Part of Department of Computer Science at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg.…

74 visits May 27, 2025 Details

MIT LCS PDOS

pdos.csail.mit.edu

Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Group; research focus: extensible and flexible system services: filesystems, networking, languages. Projects: 'C, Chord, Click, Exokernel…

496 visits Oct 24, 2024 Details

MOSIX

cs.huji.ac.il

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…

31 visits Jul 2, 2024 Details

MOSIX Clusters of Surplus Computers for Providing Common Network Services and Applications

ralphie.perlmonk.org

Details active project to illustrate use of MOSIX to create clusters of surplus machines that can be used to provide network services, application resources.

138 visits May 26, 2024 Details

Plan B Operating System

plan9.escet.urjc.es

An operating system that lets applications be built simpler. The system selects and combines resources from the network semi-automatically.

14 visits Jul 4, 2025 Details

Quarks

cs.utah.edu

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…

335 visits Feb 7, 2024 Details

Sprite

ftp.cs.berkeley.edu

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 se…

194 visits Dec 25, 2025 Details

SUMO

comp.lancs.ac.uk

Support for Multimedia in Operating systems, Lancaster University: microkernel OS with facilities to support distributed realtime and multimedia applications and ODP-based multimed…

289 visits Dec 30, 2025 Details

The Brave New OS of the Future

cnn.com

Brief, simple layman's treatment of Carnegie Mellon University's Odyssey project; IBM Research's Autonomic Computing initiative; Microsoft's Farsite project. [CNN.com]

425 visits Feb 28, 2024 Details

Tornado

eecg.toronto.edu

Object-oriented operating system for large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Minimizes data sharing via careful design: often eliminates data sharing even when sharing appears n…

263 visits Jan 8, 2024 Details

WebOS

cs.duke.edu

Gives distributed OS services needed to build applications that are wide-area, highly available, incrementally scalable, dynamically reconfiguring, with mechanisms for: resource di…

145 visits Sep 1, 2023 Details

XOS

free.prohosting.com

Distributed operating system, to be fully object-oriented, preemptively multithreaded/tasked, event/message-driven. Little code yet, but design documents and links are interesting,…

139 visits Jun 23, 2025 Details

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