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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.

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.

Generic middleware for creating a worldwide virtual computer.

Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP.

Build a supercomputer using wasted CPU cycles of home and office computers. (A fledgling project looking for a sponsor and participants.)

Provides an infrastructure for true distributed computing projects. This includes applications as well as APIs for users to design and build their own projects.

Research on the development of economic resource management and scheduling system for global grid computing. Description and papers.

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.

An Open-Source project that provides software to distribute work over many computers in a network. The machines are only used during idle-time.

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.

In Part 1, Drew McCormack showed how to install and start using Xgrid. Now in Part 2, he covers integration with Cocoa.

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.

Learn how various protocols fit into the big picture of the distributed computing arena.

A non-profit organization created to provide supercomputing resources to public interest research, by use of volunteer distributed computing.

A standardised approach for effective management of large numbers of desktops, devices, servers, applications and LAN’s from one centralised point.

Clustering software intended primarily for scientific researchers. Mac OS X only.

Language- and platform-independent protocol for peer-to-peer networking, developed by Sun. Initial implementation in Java. [Open Source, BSD-like]