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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) A software platform for distributed computing using volunteer computer resources. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

boincwapstats Web page of an Open Source PHP script that generates signature images out of BOINC statistics. Easy to set up and also easy to run. http://boincwapstats.sourceforge.net/

g-Eclipse Project The g-Eclipse project aims to build an integrated workbench framework to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures like g-Lite or GRIA. http://www.eclipse.org/geclipse/

Linux Virtual Server The Linux Virtual Server is a highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers, with the load balancer running on the Linux operating system. The architecture of the server cluster is fully transparent to end users, and the users interact as if it were a single high-performance virtual server. It is under GPL licence. http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/

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] http://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/ncat.php

OpenMosix OpenMosix is the free fork from MOSIX after this great project closed the user area tools to a closed-source licence. All OpenMosix is under GPL licence. http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/

OpenMosix user area tools (userland tools) for 2.6 Official (and experimental) user area tools for OpenMosix kernel 2.6. http://www.orcero.org/irbis/openmosix/userland.html

openMosixview cluster-management GUI openMosixview cluster-management GUI http://www.openmosixview.com/

OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) A set of distributed computing technologies under LGPL, promoted and developed by The Open Group. http://www.opengroup.org/dce/

• SDSC Matrix Project - Offers workflow protocols and workflow language descriptions necessary to build a peer-to- peer infrastructure. Open source only for non-commertial use.

  Xfiles An interactive utility for comparing and merging one file tree with another over a network. (Java) http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/xfiles.html

  YA-RPC: Yet another remote procedure call YA-RPC is a next generation open-source framework for building distributed applications. It is similar to CORBA or web-services, however it is much simpler to use, deploy and customize and offers unique features and high performance. (C#, Java) http://www.yarpc.org