Surf these sites: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) -- A premiere conference forum for distributed computing research. True to the title word "Principles", it tends to have a theoretical focus. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (Journal) -- Peer reviewed journal published four times a year. Wide coverage of distributed computing includes distributed system design, verification, performance, reliability, and security. Applied Research Consultants -- Commerical developer of embedded and real-time distributed controls systems. Argonne Distributed Systems Laboratory -- Research focus includes programming support for parallel and distributed computing, quality of service, and security. Arjuna Solutions Limited -- Commerical provider of distributed transaction processing technology. Products include CORBA Object Transaction Service (OTS) compliant systems implemented in C++ and Java. BBN Technologies (GTE) -- Firm known for its role in deploying the Internet''s predecessor, ARPANET. Advanced R&D includes reliable networking, distributed system security, and mobile computing. Now a subsidiary of GTE. Bell Labs Distributed Systems Department -- R&D group that focuses on fault tolerance, distributed operating systems, and theory of distributed computing. Part of Bell Labs'' Information Sciences Research Center. Bell Labs Secure Systems Department -- Research group with focus that includes web security, electronic commerce, and network intrusion detection. Berkeley NOW (Networks of Workstations) Project -- Cluster computing project at the University of California, Berkeley, computer science department. Bibliographies on Distributed Computing -- Searchable collection of BibTeX bibliographies on distributed computing research. CMU Institute for Complex Engineered Systems -- Research focuses include high performance and high availability information systems. Home is in Carnegie Mellon''s electrical and computer engineering department. CMU Systems Research Group -- Special focuses include fault-tolerant distributed computing, mobile computing, and electronic commerce. Part of the Carnegie Mellon University computer science department. Caltech Parallel and Distributed Computing Group -- Research group at California Institute of Technology. Focus includes fault-tolerant cluster computing. Cetus Links: Distributed Objects & Components -- Links on Objects and Components Cutter Consortium Distributed Computing Services -- Consulting service that specializes in distributed computing architectures. Distributed Algorithms and Systems -- Overview site with academic links. Hosted at Chalmers University of Technology. Distributed Computing -- A quarterly journal focusing on design, implementation, and theoretical aspects of distributed computing. Distributed Systems Technology Centre -- Research consortium funded by the Australian government and several Australian universities and corporations. Research focuses include CORBA services and distributed databases. Distributed.net -- A project linking volunteers that cooperatively tackle grand scale distributed computing challenges. Georgia Tech Systems Research Group -- Research group in the College of Computing. Focuses include distributed operating systems, mobile computing, discrete event simulation, and cluster computing for media applications. Globus Project -- Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale. Horus Project -- Reliable distributed computing research in Cornell University computer science department. Has information on Ensemble, a publicly distributed toolkit based on Horus research. IBM Distributed Computing Environment -- IBM''s product offering based on the DCE open standard for distributed computing. IBM Massively Distributed Systems Group -- Research group at IBM''s T. J. Watson Research Center; research focuses include mobile agents, system security, and information economies. IEEE Concurrency (Magazine) -- Published monthly. Special focuses include distributed object computing architectures, real-time systems, collaborative computing, and database and transaction processing. IEEE Internet Computing (Magazine) -- Regular focuses include World Wide Web, Java programming, and Internet-based agents. Six issues per year; peer reviewed. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Journal) -- Monthly peer-reviewed journal. Articles regularly cover parallel languages; task scheduling; distributed databases, operating systems, algorithms; modeling and simulation; and real-time, reliability and fault-tolerance issues. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking -- A bimonthly journal focused on papers advancing the state-of the-art and practical applications of communication networks. Illinois Systems Research Group -- Research focuses include distributed operating systems, middleware, and agent-based computing. Imperial College (U. London) Distributed Software Engineering Group -- Research focus includes software development process and support for real-time distributed systems. Information Systems Laboratory (U. Texas) -- Research group within The University of Texas (Austin). Focus includes developing distributed computing systems for the U.S. Department of Defense. Jini Connection Technology -- Primary source for information on Jini, Sun Microsystem''s technology for internet-based communication. Jini.org: The Jini Community -- This site facilitates collaborative development for Jini (Sun Microsystem''s standard for internet-based communication), providing focused discussion forums, newsgroups, and mailing lists. Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer -- A worldwide virtual computer. MIT Theory of Distributed Systems Group -- The group focuses on formal aspects of distributed computation (algorithms, lower bounds, and verficiation). MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems -- Computer and Automation Research Institute Research and consultation focusing on parallel and distributed software engineering. Affiliated with Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Microsoft''s Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) -- Protocol that enables software components to communicate over a network in a reliable, secure, and efficient manner. Milan Project (with Calypso) -- Metacomputing research project at Arizona State and NYU. Project has produced Calypso, a prototype fault-tolerant system that combines many networked computers into a single virtual parallel computing environment. Nile Project -- An endeavor to tie hundreds of workstations, networked over large distances, into a self-managing, fault-tolerant system. Project members are at Cornell, U. Florida, U. Texas, and U. California San Diego. 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. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Computing Project -- Project goal is a single run-time environment that ties together several networked supercomputers. Intended users are the community of scientists and engineers addressing "grand challenge" computations. Object Management Group -- Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP. ObjectSpace -- ObjectSpace provides portable class libraries for use with the ANSI/ISO C++ Standard Library. Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices (Journal) -- Published twice a year by NOVA Science Publishers since 1998. SRI Secure Systems Research -- Research focus on authentication and secure collaboration in networked systems. Part of SRI International''s Computer Science Laboratory. Stanford University Distributed Systems Group -- Special focuses include high-performance networking and distributed operating systems. Transis Group Communication System -- Research project for achieving fault-tolerant ordered multicast; based in the Computer Science Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Trinity College (Dublin) Distributed Systems Group -- Research group whose focus includes language support for distributed programming, and object-oriented techniques such as frameworks and design patterns. UCSD/UIUC Concurrent Systems Architecture Group -- Research group in the Universities of Illinois and California San Diego that focuses on hardware and software architecture issues in parallel and distributed computer systems. University of Newcastle Distributed Systems Research -- Research focus includes distributed operating systems and distributed system management. Projects include Arjuna and Voltan. University of Texas Distributed Multimedia Computing Lab -- Research focus includes file systems, media transmission protocols, and operating system support for multimedia networking.
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