Distributed Systems Architecture

Pandora are a Free Software set of programs, set under the GPL license, that allows to analyze in a visual way status and performance of several parameters from different Operating Systems, servers, applications and hardware systems as Firewalls, Proxies, Data Bases, Web Servers or Routers. All... Platforms: *nix

polyBSD is a "multi"-purpose (hence "poly") framework for building embedded systems based on NetBSD. Of the three major *BSD flavors, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are often in the spotlight. FreeBSD is touted for its stability, while OpenBSD usually claims the title of the most secure operatin system... Platforms: *nix

Mpserv is an architecture for playing MP3s distributed throughout a LAN or high-speed WAN. The core is the server which houses a database of song titles available through the network. Clients connect to this server and request songs to be played on the stereo connected to the server machine.... Platforms: *nix

X10 is an experimental new language currently under development at IBM in collaboration with academic partners. The X10 effort is part of the IBM PERCS project (Productive Easy-to-use Reliable Computer Systems) in the DARPA program on High Productivity Computer Systems. The PERCS project is... Platforms: *nix

FramerD is a portable distributed object-oriented database designed to support the maintenance and sharing of knowledge bases. Unlike other object-oriented databases, FramerD is optimized for the sort of pointer-intensive data structures used by semantic networks, frame systems, and many... Platforms: *nix

LON-CAPA is an Open Source Freeware Distributed Learning Content Management and Assessment System. LON-CAPA is a full-featured, web-based course management system similar to commercial systems, see edutools.info for comparisons.. The LearningOnline Network with CAPA is an open source... Platforms: *nix

GPAC is an implementation of the MPEG-4 Systems standard (ISO/IEC 14496-1) developed from scratch in ANSI C. The main development goal is to provide a clean (a.k.a. readable by as many people as possible), small and flexible alternative to the MPEG-4 Systems reference software (known as IM1 and... Platforms: *nix

OpenXDAS is an open source implementation of the OpenGroups Distributed Auditing System. The XDAS standard was defined in 1998 by an OG working group with representation from several software companies supporting various flavors of Unix and other operating systems. XDAS was never taken beyond... Platforms: *nix

bcnu is a web based system management tool which delivers information on the status of networked systems in a simple and easy to use manner. Have a look at the sample screens to see how easy it is. The project uses a web browser to display information about hosts in a tabular form. Colored icons... Platforms: *nix

Joeq is a virtual machine and compiler infrastructure designed to facilitate research in virtual machine technologies such as Just-In-Time and Ahead-Of-Time compilation, advanced garbage collection techniques, distributed computation, sophisticated scheduling algorithms, and advanced run time... Platforms: *nix

Data distribution is achieved by transparent replication of a shared scene graph among the participating processes of a distributed application. A sophisticated group communication system is used to guarantee state consistency even in the presence of late joining and leaving processes. The... Platforms: *nix

LibreSource is a software platform dedicated to software development and management of distributed communities. LibreSource offers configuration management with the generic synchronization module So6 from INRIA research. It includes numerous tools dealing with project and user management,... Platforms: *nix

MetaBoss is an integrated suite of tools for the design, development, and management of enterprise software systems through modelling. MetaBoss project utilises OMGs Model Driven Architecture concepts and is primarily oriented at enterprises using Java based tools and technologies. It... Platforms: *nix

Virt-Factory project manages virtualized infrastructure: Virt-Factory focuses on interacting with large numbers of virtual systems and on addressing some of the interaction problems that brings with it Virt-Factory is primarily aimed at a fairly formal setting (data center), though we hope it... Platforms: *nix

Fast Secure File System exports existing directories securely over the network, letting users store and retrieve encrypted data in a scalable and transparent way. FSFS is written in C and works on GNU/Linux systems on x86 and PPC architectures, with help from FUSE and OpenSSL. File systems are... Platforms: *nix

AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability and transparent... Platforms: *nix

Mpak is being designed from the ground up to be a kernel and architecture independent package manager for free operating systems.. Savannah is a central point for development, distribution and maintainance of Free Software. It allows contributors to easily join existing Free Software projects. Platforms: *nix

RipOff is a GTK+ based CD ripper for Linux (and hopefully for other Unix systems once some testing and fixing have been done) that has a simple interface, CDDB lookups, and a plugin-based encoder architecture. RipOff CD Ripper attempts to appeal to those users who want a non-GNOME dependent CD... Platforms: *nix

dispatch is a multi-tier architecture object-oriented framework that allows access to methods and variables at the command line and in shell scripts or via a GUI. The project is in an early stage and you will probably not be able to compile it easily or use it for significant work. There are... Platforms: *nix

PearPC is an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. This release fixes an ugly partition mapping bug which prevented PearPC to boot OpenDarwin. But the fix might cause regressions: so if your image is no longer booting and you can... Platforms: *nix