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/

Distributed Operating Systems  
   Short, annotated, alphabetically sorted list and links, part of larger system.
   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/os/distributed.html

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

DTOS  
   Distributed Trusted OS; Mach-based microkernel. Goal: show feasibility of including strong security mechanisms without sacrificing other desirable features; NSA funded as part of broad program encouraging strong, flexible security controls in next generat
   http://www.sctc.com/randt/HTML/dtos.html

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

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

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, and
   http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Glunix/glunix.html

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 computing
   http://bolero.ics.uci.edu/agentos/

Hive  
   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.
   http://www-flash.stanford.edu/OS/

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

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, a
   http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/issg/webos/

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/

MIT LCS PDOS  
   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, I
   http://amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu/

AtomsNet  
   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 gathering, retrieval; has features of OSs, database management systems, di
   http://atoms.sourceforge.net/

Institute for Distributed Systems: IVS  
   Researches distributed and realtime operating systems, communication, software engineering. Part of Department of Computer Science at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg. Some information on site not in English.
   http://ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/index_english.shtml

Plan B Operating System  
   An operating system that lets applications be built simpler. The system selects and combines resources from the network semi-automatically.
   http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/who/nemo/Plan-B.html

GUIDE  
   Grenoble Universities Integrated Distributed Environment. Object-oriented distributed OS to develop and operate distributed applications on local area networks of workstations and servers. Joint project Bull, IMAG Research Institute; related to COMANDOS,
   http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/guide/Welcome.html

The Brave New OS of the Future  
   Brief, simple layman's treatment of Carnegie Mellon University's Odyssey project; IBM Research's Autonomic Computing initiative; Microsoft's Farsite project. [CNN.com]
   http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/02/13/brave.new.os.idg/

Quarks  
   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]
   http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/quarks.html

MOSIX  
   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]
   http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/labs/mosix/