Organization
or Effort
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URL
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Description
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Adaptinet
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www.adaptinet.com/
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Recently
released adaptive platform for developing distributed applications into
open-source.
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ALPINE
Network
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cubicmetercrystal.com/alpine/
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A peer
based Open Source application and network infrastructure designed for
decentralized information location/discovery.
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Amaya Web
Editor/Browser
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www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html
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A complete
web browsing and authoring environment that implements collaborative
annotation. From W3C.
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BEEP
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ietf.org/html.charters/beep-charter.html
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Blocks
Extensible Exchange Protocol is an XML-based messaging framework for building
application protocols
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Beowulf
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www.beowulf-underground.org/
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Distributed
computing project started in 1994.
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Brazil
Project
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www.sun.com/research/brazil/
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This Web
application framework effort from Sun links together a variety of their
technologies, from Java to Jini, as well as wireless networking.
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Climate
Dynamics
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www.climate-dynamics.rl.ac.uk/
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Casino-21 is
a climate simulation distributed computing project.
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Clip2.com
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www.clip2.com/
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Portal
source for technical information on P2P file sharing networks.
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DirectP2P
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sourceforge.net/projects/directp2p/
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DirectP2P is a library of modules that interact with
various P2P networks such as Gnutella, OpenNap, Kazaa/Morpheus, and eDonkey2000. It
presents a unified interface (or API) so that anyone may write their own client.
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EcoGrid
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www.csse.monash.edu.au/ |
Portal for
information about grid computing, with emphasis on economics.
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Espra
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www.espra.net/
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Open
source file-sharing client offshoot of Freenet that uses a decentralized,
serverless architecture.
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The Free
Haven Project
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www.freehaven.net/
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Enables
anonymous publication.
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Freenet
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freenet.sourceforge.net/
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Freenet
aims to create an information publication system similar to the World Wide
Web based on the protocol in which information can be inserted into the
system associated with a "key". Later anyone else can retrieve the
information using the appropriate key. Users don’t know what files they’re
hosting. Popular files migrate closer to users.
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giFT
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sourceforge.net/projects/gift/
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A generic interface to the FastTrack P2P network (Used by Kazaa and Morpehus).
giFT also provides a generic daemon that can load "plugins" for different file sharing protocols,
including a home grown network called OpenFT.
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Global
Grid Forum
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www.globalgridforum.com/
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Volunteer
organization to promote P2P standards.
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Globus
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www.globus.org/
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The Globus
Project aims to create computational grids, persistent environments that
enable software applications to integrate instruments, displays,
computational and information resources that are managed by diverse
organizations in widespread locations.
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GPulp
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www.gpulp.com/
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A working
group to develop the next version of the Gnutella protocol, the general
Purpose Location protocol.
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GridPort
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gridport.npaci.edu/
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A toolkit
for building portals offering entry to a computing grid. Used for the HotPage, which organizes
access to the supercomputer resources of UCSD/SDSC, UTexas,
UMichigan, and Caltech.
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grub.org
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www.grub.org/
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Creates a
distributed computing client, the first application of which is a Web
indexer.
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IMXP
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ietf.org/
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A draft
standard for instant messaging.
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Infobot
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www.infobot.org/
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A Perl module
that connects to an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server, joins channels, and
begins accumulating “factoids.”
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Internet2®
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www.internet2.edu/
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A
consortium led by over 180 universities working in partnership with industry
and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and
technologies.
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jiFT
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sourceforge.net/projects/jift/
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The Java interface to FastTrack (used by Kazaa and Morpheus) or "jiFT isn't FastTrack".
A port of the giFT daemon from C to Java.
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Jini
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www.jini.org/
|
P2P networking
for devices, from Sun. Each device provides services that other devices in
the community may use.
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Jnutella
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www.jnutella.org
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Japanese
Gnutella community.
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Jungle
Monkey
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www.junglemonkey.net/
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A
Unix-based distributed file-sharing service.
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JXTA
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www.jxta.org/
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Sun’s JXTA
effort aims to be the first P2P stack. More
. . .
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Manila
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manila.userland.com/
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A content
management system from Userland that can be used to create Weblogs.
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Meerkat:
An Open Wire Service
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www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/
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Meerkat is
an XML-based syndicated content reader from publisher O’Reilly. It reports
news on P2P issues. Good companion service to O’Reilly’s OpenP2P.com.
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MITRE
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www.mitre.org/tech_transfer/mobilemesh/
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Mobile
Mesh is an Open Source project to enable P2P communication between mobile
nodes, and involves Mobile Mesh Link Discovery Protocol, Mobile Mesh Routing
Protocol, Mobile Mesh Border Discovery Protocol.
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Neurogrid
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www.neurogrid.com/
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NeuroGrid
allows the user to store data in a web-like fashion, associating bookmarks (files/documents)
with multiple keywords. User activity is observed and the associations
refined to reflect the way in which the keywords are used NeuroGrid P2P
search engine is an application of the underlying NeuroGrid Learning
technology, plus NeuroGrid routing technology.
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New
Productivity Initiative
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www.newproductivity.org/
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An
industry effort by system vendors, independent software vendors, and service
providers to develop Distributed Resource Management (DRM), which ensures
that disparate computing resources are united to optimize the use of the
network as a computing platform.
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OFSI
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sourceforge.net/projects/ofsi
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Open File
Sharing Initiative is developing P2P file sharing.
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OpenNap
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opennap.sourceforge.net/
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An open
source version of the proprietary Napster server.
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OpenP2P
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www.openp2p.com/
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O’Reilly’s
information portal about P2P.
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P2P.net
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www.p2p.net/
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Information
portal about the P2P movement.
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P2Ptracker
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www.p2ptracker.com/
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Information
portal about the P2P movement.
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PeerMetrics
(FKA Exelion)
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www.peermetrics.com/
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Creators of
the Open Source PeerBrowser, as well as the Rabbit Protocol and the Peer
System, a framework for developing P2P applications.
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PeerProfits
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www.whimsical.net/peerprofits/
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Information
portal about the P2P movement.
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Peertal
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www.peertal.com/
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Information
portal about the P2P movement.
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Peer-to-Peer
Working Group
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www.peer-to-peerwg.org/
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Non-profit
effort organized to promote best-known practices based on peer-to-peer
computing.
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PeerToPeerCentral
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www.peertopeercentral.com/
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Information
portal about the P2P movement. Provides original research and analysis.
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Piper
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www.bioinformatics.org/piper/
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An Open
Source distributed workflow system.
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Publius
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www.cs.nyu.edu/~waldman/publius/
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An
anonymous Web publishing system that inserts a layer of encryption that
protects the identity of a publisher. A project at NYU.
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Radio
Userland
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radio.userland.com/
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A
"personal radio station," music organizer and player as well as a
collaborative outliner, a writing tool that organizes stories, directories,
presentations.
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RDF
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www.w3.org/Metadata/Activity.html
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The World
Wide Web Consortium’s, Resource Description Framework, is a "declarative
language and provides a standard way for using XML to represent metadata in
the form of statements about properties and relationships of items on the
Web."
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Sandia
National Laboratories
|
www.sandia.gov/
|
Developed a
cyberagent intrusion protection application, still in the laboratory stage,
which functions as a multiagent collective -- a distributed program.
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Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
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www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/
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Originally
developed by Microsoft and now a W3C effort, Simple Object Access Protocol)
is a lightweight, XML-based, protocol for exchange of information in a
decentralized, distributed environment.
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Sun
Microsystems
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www.sun.com/software/gridware/
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Sun Grid
Engine finds a pool of idle resources and harnesses it productively.
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Trove List
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sourceforge.net/softwaremap/
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A list of Open Source P2P projects, primarily file sharing oriented.
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Universal
Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
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uddi.org/
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Universal
Description, Discovery and Integration is a registry initiative lead by Ariba,
IBM, and Microsoft to create a platform-independent, open framework for
describing services, discovering businesses, and integrating business
services using the Internet.
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WebDAV
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www.webdav.org/
|
Web-based
Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of extensions to the HTTP
protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on
remote web servers. Supported by Adobe and Macromedia.
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XMethods
|
www.xmethods.com/
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A portal
listing projects using SOAP, including some using P2P.
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XML-RPC
|
www.xml-rpc.org/
|
A
precursor to SOAP, it uses XML and remote procedure calls to communicate
information from one server to another.
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XNS
(eXtensible Name Service)
|
www.xns.org/
|
An open
protocol and open-source platform for universal addressing promising a
permanent identifier for a data container. Also XNS is a platform for
"web agents" to negotiate the exchange, linking, and
synchronization of information among different parties.
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