Web Directory

» DROPS: Dresden Real-Time Operating System Project
   Several RTOSs with QoS focus: much research is done on networking support for continuous-media applications, very few projects tackle related OS issues, such as scheduling and file system support for bounded response time: overview, status, download, inst
   http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/drops/

» Getting Closer to 99.9999% Network Uptime
   Has information loss become so crucial? Is there real demand for highly available networks? Or are network OEMs, fighting a bad economy, making high-tech versions of detergent ads claiming new and improved? Vaughan-Nichols and Associates.
   http://practical-tech.com/network/getting-closer-to-999999-network-uptime/

» Project Satori
   High-Performance distributed object environment emphasizing adaptive end-to-end QoS guarantees. Abstract, components, documents, people, funding.
   http://www.arl.wustl.edu/projects/archive/ito/

» SUMO
   SUpport for Multimedia in Operating systems, Lancaster University: microkernel OS with facilities to support distributed realtime and multimedia applications and ODP-based multimedia distributed application platforms.
   http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/sumo/

» Scout
   Free for non-commercial use. Communication-oriented OS focused on network systems: network-attached devices, set-top boxes, and hand-held devices. Fast, customizable, based on new ways to structure and construct OSs: The Path: how data flows between end-p
   http://www.cs.arizona.edu/scout/

» Tornado
   Object-oriented operating system for large-scale shared-memory multiprocessors. Minimizes data sharing via careful design: often eliminates data sharing even when sharing appears natural. Successor to Hurricane.
   http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/ParallelSys/tornado.html