Projects

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a research system developed at Bell Labs starting in the late 1980s. Its original designers and authors were Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Dave Presotto, and Phil Winterbottom. They were joined by many others as development continued throughout the 1990s to the present. Plan 9 ... [More] demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to Unix users but at the same time quite foreign. In Plan 9, each process has its own mutable name space. A process may rearrange, add to, and remove from its own name space without affecting the name spaces of unrelated processes. Included in the name space mutations is the ability to mount a connection to a file server speaking 9P, a simple file protocol. [Less]

Inferno Distributed Operating System

Inferno® is a distributed operating system, originally developed at Bell Labs, but now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova® as Free Software. Applications written in Inferno's concurrent programming language, Limbo, are compiled to its portable virtual machine code (Dis), to run anywhere on ... [More] a network in the portable environment that Inferno provides. Unusually, that environment looks and acts like a complete operating system. The use of a high-level language and virtual machine is sensible but mundane. The interesting thing is the system's representation of services and resources. They are represented in a file-like name hiearchy. Programs access them using only the file operations open, read/write, and close. The 'files' may of course represent stored data, but may also be devices, network and protocol interfaces, dynamic data sources, and services. The approach unifies and provides basic naming, structuring, and access control mechanisms for all system resources. A single file-service protocol (called Styx or 9P2000) makes all those resources available for import or export throughout the network in a uniform way, independent of location. An application simply attaches the resources it needs to its own per-process name hierarchy ('name space'). The system can be used to build portable client and server applications. It makes it straightforward to build lean applications that share all manner of resources over a network, without the cruft of much of the 'Grid' software one sees. Inferno can run 'native' on various ARM, PowerPC, SPARC and x86 platforms but also 'hosted', under an existing operating system (including FreeBSD, Irix, Linux, MacOS X, Plan 9, and Solaris), again on various processor types. [Less]

EasyWSDL

EasyWSDL is a powerful WSDL parsing library. It can be used to parse and manipulate WSDL 1.1 defintions or WSDL 2.0 descriptions. EasyWSDL (3.0) is under development and is splitted into 4 modules: - EasyWSDL11: WSDL 1.1 management. - EasyWSDL20: WSDL 2.0 management. - SoapBinding11: ... [More] management of SOAP Binding 1.1. - SoapBinding11: management of SOAP Binding 1.2. - EasySAWSDL: Semantic annotation handling (according to SAWSDL standard). This new version aims to cover the same functional perimeter than the older one (transparent WSDL 1.1 and 2.0 handling) with higher stability and test coverage. For any information about old version (2.3 and older), please refer to http://easywsdl.ow2.org [Less]

JADIF

Java distributed framework is an framework for distributed grid / volunteer computing. It's divided into a server and client library. The client library supports detection of computer state (idling), currently for Windows, Linux and MacOS. It also provides secure socket communication ... [More] , unique ids, user stats and much more. Current status is Alpha. We're always looking for people who want to help! If you have any questions or need help feel free to contact us at our mailinglists or at the bug tracker. You could also join us in IRC: #jadif at freenode [Less]

g-Eclipse

g-Eclipse is a framework that allows users and developers to access Computing Grids and Cloud Computing resources in a unified way. The framework itself is independent from a certain Grid middleware or Cloud Computing provider. The g-Eclipse project maintains a set of connectors to Grid ... [More] middlewares and provides an adapter to the Amazon webservices EC2 and S3. [Less]

dtools

Distributed tools, aka dtools is a project written in bash coding to create a suite of programs to allow running different UNIX commands in parallel in a list of tagged hosts. This utility is based on capistrano for Ruby or fabric for Python, but in pure bash.

High Performance Computing Libraries

A framework consisting of several libraries that allows development of agent based high performance applications that are meant to run on secure GNU/Linux clusters.

SimGrid Eclipse Plug-In

The SimGrid Eclipse Plug-in helps new users to get a first step in SimGrid simulation by automatically generating files needed in order to run a simulation using SimGrid.