Research Groups

Caltech Parallel and Distributed Computing Group - Research group at California Institute of Technology. Focus includes fault-tolerant cluster computing.
http://paradise.caltech.edu/

The Distributed Group - LSI Dept. University of Seville - University of Seville research group with a focus on developing description languages and tools for dealing with the complexity of multiparty interactions in internet-based applications and e-business systems.
http://www.tdg-seville.info/

MIT Theory of Distributed Systems Group - MIT's Theory of Distributed Systems (TDS) research group works on a wide range of problems involving distributed and real-time systems. The work has a theoretical flavor, but is closely tied to practice. Roughly speaking, the research can be classified into: Formal Modeling and Verification, Algorithms, Data Structures and Lower Bounds, and Applications.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/

high performance distributed computing. - Indiana University Computer Science high performance distributed computing and grid computing lab.
http://www.extreme.indiana.edu

University of Cambridge - Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group is the largest research area in the Computer Laboratory covering hardware, communications hardware and software, operating systems and distributed systems.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/

Stanford University Distributed Systems Group - Special focuses include high-performance networking and distributed operating systems.
http://www-dsg.stanford.edu/DSGHomePage.html

Modelling Concurrent Systems Group - At RWTH Aachen. Projects, bibliography and some on-line articles.
http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Research/MCS/

CMU Institute for Complex Engineered Systems - Research focuses include high performance and high availability information systems. Home is in Carnegie Mellon's electrical and computer engineering department.
http://www.ices.cmu.edu/

The Panic Lab Homepage - The focus of our group is on Pervasive, Available, No-futs, Internet Computing (PANIC). Information and an archive of collected papers.
http://www.panic-lab.rutgers.edu/

High Performance Computing at Stevens Institute of Technology - Information regarding the High Performance Computing Facilities within the Department of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology.
http://www.cs.stevens.edu/hpcf/

MIT Parallel & Distributed Operating Systems Group - This group's focus is to build and investigate software systems for parallel and distributed environments. They have conducted research in operating systems, networking, mobile computing, language design, compiler design, and architecture, taking a pragmatic approach: "we build high-performance, reliable, and working systems."
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/

SRI Secure Systems Research - Research focus on authentication and secure collaboration in networked systems. Part of SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory.
http://www.csl.sri.com/programs/security/

University of Illinois Open Systems Laboratory - The goal of the Illinois Open Systems Laboratory is to develop mechanisms to simplify the development of scalable parallel, distributed and mobile computing systems.
http://www-osl.cs.uiuc.edu

Distributed Systems Group - Technical University of Vienna - The Distributed Systems Group in the Information Systems Institute of the Technical University of Vienna conducts teaching and research in distributed computing.
http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/

The Disappearing Computer Initiative - An EU-funded proactive initiative of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) activity of the Information Society Technologies (IST) research program. Projects, activities, members and resources.
http://www.disappearing-computer.net/

DREAM LAB - Distributed Real-time Ever Available Microcomputing - At the University of California. Areas include Real-Time Object-Oriented System/Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, Fault tolerance, Real-Time Operating Systems.
http://dream.eng.uci.edu/

Distributed Computing Group - The research interests of our group include: data structures and algorithms, distributed computing (e.g.: routing, file systems, and generally scalabiliy and decentralization of data and algorithms), peer-to-peer computing, mobile computing, networking, ad-hoc networks, online algorithms and randomization.
http://distcomp.ethz.ch/index.html

UCSD/UIUC Concurrent Systems Architecture Group - Research group in the Universities of Illinois and California San Diego that focuses on hardware and software architecture issues in parallel and distributed computer systems.
http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/

Argonne Distributed Systems Laboratory - Research focus includes programming support for parallel and distributed computing, quality of service, and security.
http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/dsl/index.html

Imperial College (U. London) Distributed Software Engineering Group - Research focus includes software development process and support for real-time distributed systems.
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/

University of Texas Distributed Multimedia Computing Lab - Research focus includes file systems, media transmission protocols, and operating system support for multimedia networking.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dmcl/

IBM Massively Distributed Systems Group - Research group at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center; research focuses include mobile agents, system security, and information economies.
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/massive/

Columbia University - Distributed Computing and Communications Laboratory: This lab pursues experimental research of networked systems. Our goal is to develop fundamental novel networking technologies and maximize their impact by exporting them to industry and academia.
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/dcc/

Columbia University Network Computing Laboratory - Research in experimental software systems to make personalized computing ubiquitously available, anytime and anywhere.
http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu

Georgia Tech Systems Research Group - Research group in the College of Computing. Focuses include distributed operating systems, mobile computing, discrete event simulation, and cluster computing for media applications.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/systems/

The Lee Center for Advanced Networking - Research center at Caltech, supporting development of a global-scale wireless distributed computing system that connects people and appliances.
http://leecenter.caltech.edu/

Distributed Systems Department - The Distributed Systems Department seeks to allow scientists to address complex and large-scale computing and data analysis problems beyond what is possible today. The department is developing software components which will operate in a distributed environment.
http://dsd.lbl.gov/

Illinois Systems Research Group - Research focuses include distributed operating systems, middleware, and agent-based computing.
http://choices.cs.uiuc.edu/

Multiscale Computing Laboratory at the OSU Department of Biomedical Informatics - University-affiliated research group that develops software to support data queries, filtering, and management of large, distributed, heterogeneous, scientific datasets or databases in a Grid or cluster computing environment.
http://bmi.osu.edu/multiscale/

MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems - Computer and Automation Research Institute Research and consultation focusing on parallel and distributed software engineering. Affiliated with Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu

Horus Project - Reliable distributed computing research in Cornell University computer science department. Has information on Ensemble, a publicly distributed toolkit based on Horus research.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/HORUS/

GridsWatch: Grid Computing Portal, Georgetown University - Portal fosters collaborative development of grid technology. Assembling, exposing, and archiving grid technologies in a public forum for developers and implementers to technology managers, research scientists, students, and industry leaders.
http://www.gridswatch.com/

ORNL Distributed Computing Project - Oak Ridge National Lab has developed a world-wide reputation for its parallel and distributed computing research.
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/cs/DistComp.html