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Legion and Condor were early successes in network computing. They predate
Java, hence are not Java-centric, and indeed do not use a virtual machine
to overcome the portability/interoperability problem associated with heterogeneous
machines and OSs. The use of a virtual machine is a significant difference
between Java-centric andprevious systems. Charlotte was the first research
project, to our knowledge, that was Java-centric. Charlotte used eager
scheduling, introduced by the Charlotte team, and implementeda full distributed
shared memory. Globus is a metacomputing or umbrella project. It consequently
is not Java-centric, and indeed must be language-neutral. CX is
intended to fit under Globus's umbrella via a portal. Javelin is Java-centric,
implements eager scheduling, and has a host/broker/client architecture.Huberman
relate anonymity to incentives, in their application of the ``tragedy of
the commons" to anonymous peer-to-peer networks. Similar conclusions apply
in this setting, further motivating non anonymous serviceproviders
(e.g., producers and task servers).Securing the Jini infrastructure is
not a focus of this project;commercial efforts are under way to do this.(see,
e.g., Personal Genie's Secure Lookup Service). Recent commercial ventures
attest to the perception that unused cyclescan be made available in a computationally
meaningful way. Such ventures, while still in their infancy, include EnFuzion
(targeted at intranets), Applied Metacomputing (the commercialization of
Legion), Distributed Science (aka the ProcessTree), Entropia,Parabon Computation,
Popular Power,and United Devices.
Academic projects |
Commerical ventures |
Legion University
of Virginia
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~legion/
Condor University of Wisconsin
Madison
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
Polder University
of Amsterdam
http://www.science.uva.nl/projects/polder/
MOL University
of Paderborn
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/pc2/projects/mol/
Javelin University of Santa
Barbara
http://javelin.cs.ucsb.edu/ |
EnFusion
http://www.turbolinux.com/products/enf/
Applied Metacomputing
http://www.appliedmeta.com/
Distributed Science (aka ProcessTree)
http://www.processtree.com/
Entropia
http://entropia.com/
Parabon Computation
http://www.parabon.com
United Devices
http://www.uniteddevices.com/home.htm
DataSynapse
http://www.datasynapse.com/
DCypher.net
http://www.dcypher.net/ |
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