OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) 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. http://www.opengroup.org/dce/

IBM Distributed Computing Environment IBM's product offering based on the DCE open standard for distributed computing. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/network/dce/

Sengent A distributed financial agent that provides investment advice. Product information, download, and technical support. http://www.sengent.com/

JXTA Language- and platform-independent protocol for peer-to-peer networking, developed by Sun. Initial implementation in Java. [Open Source, BSD-like] http://www.jxta.org/

Jtrix A platform for developing adaptive, scalable applications capable of migration. Framework source code, documentation, and information about projects using the framework available. http://www.jtrix.org/

Object Management Group Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP. http://www.omg.org/

Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Protocol that enables software components to communicate over a network in a reliable, secure, and efficient manner. http://www.microsoft.com/com/tech/dcom.asp

GreenTea Java-based P2P Distributed Computing Platform Can be used for parallel supercomputing, distributed file sharing/searching/storage, distributed storage, and total resource sharing applications. http://www.GreenTeaTech.com/

Legion Generic middleware for creating a worldwide virtual computer. http://legion.virginia.edu/

MoBiDiCK Modular Bioinformatics Distributed Computing Kernel developed at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. Papers and downloads available. http://bioinfo.mshri.on.ca/projects/mobi/

United Devices, Inc. Edge aggregation architecture that harnesses unused computer resources. Client software works on one of a variety of projects. http://www.ud.com/

XtremWeb Global Computing Network Harnesses spare computing power from clients for work on different projects. http://www.lri.fr/~fedak/XtremWeb

Mozart Programming System Platform for distributed computing built using the Oz programming language. http://www.mozart-oz.org/

Internet Based Distributed Super Computer Build a supercomputer using wasted CPU cycles of home and office computers. (A fledgling project looking for a sponsor and participants.) http://members.tripod.com/distributedcomputer/

Berkeley NOW (Networks of Workstations) Project Cluster computing project at the University of California, Berkeley, computer science department. http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/

Echelon Agent based grid computing. http://www.geocities.com/echelongrid/

Cosm Provides an infrastructure for true distributed computing projects. This includes applications as well as APIs for users to design and build their own projects. http://www.mithral.com/projects/cosm/

Cougaar Open Source Project Welcome to the Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar) Open Source Project site. Cougaar is java-based architecture for the construction of large-scale distributed agent-based applications. http://www.cougaar.org/

Quickstone Technologies Limited Supplier of the a Java-based distributed computing framework called JCSP. JCSP is particularly easy to program and promotes a message-passing style of concurrent programming. http://www.quickstone.com

Aurora Management Workbench A software framework for building manageable (i.e, scalable, reliable, and configurable) distributed software applications. A Bell Labs project. http://www.bell-labs.com/project/aurora/