See also:

• Computers: Computer Science: Distributed Computing  (312)
• Computers: Parallel Computing  (450)

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) - - A software platform for distributed computing using volunteer computer resources.

BoincView - - An addon for BOINC. Under Windows all BOINC Clients in a network can be supervised and partly remote controlled.

DotGNU Project - - A Free Software competitor to Microsoft's .NE.

FIPA - - The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents is a non-profit organisation producing standards for the interoperation of heterogeneous software agents.

FIPA-OS - - A software agent framework, which implements the specifications of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents. (Java.

Jabber - - An XML-based, open-source system and protocol for real-time messaging and presence notification.

Morphis - - A wireless content transcoder that enables developers to easily create applications that reach all wireless devices. (Java.

MOSIX - - Enhances the Linux kernel with cluster computing capabilities, to allow any number of X86/Pentium/AMD based computers to work as if part of a single system. (C) [GNU/Linux.

Ncat - - Makes it easy to pipe data between hosts. The syntax is similar to cat, but allows tcp streams to be specified in addition to regular files. (C) [GNU/Linux, Unix.

Paul's Unofficial BOINC Documentation Site - - Summarizes current information about BOINC projects and usage.

SDSC Matrix Project - - Offers workflow protocols and workflow language descriptions necessary to build a peer-to- peer infrastructure.

Xfiles - - An interactive utility for comparing and merging one file tree with another over a network. (Java.

ZooLib - - A library allowing to create native executable for GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS, BeOS and Windows with little or no need for platform-specific code. (C++.