This Portal is intended to be a resource for information, including articles and links, relating to the increasingly popular "N-Tier" model of distributed computing.

Indexes on-line technical reports from 150 institutions archives - open to institutions, or submit individual articles with the CoRR open repository.

Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP.

Commercial provider of application server and ORB software, and consulting and training services.

Oldenberg, Germany. Research and development in embedded systems, healthcare information and communication systems.

Provides news, applications, games and developer documentation related to the OpenGL 2D and 3D graphics application programming interface.

Ohio Supercomputer Center. Innovations in computing, networking, and education.

Parabon will buy idle computer time from individuals and businesses worldwide, then bundle and resell it as supercomputing power for business, science, and medical research.

PeerDirect enables organizations to effectively distribute business applications within an enterprise or to remote offices and users, improving the quality of service and system availability.

Platform Computing delivers intelligent, practical enterprise grid computing software and services that help organizations plan, build, run and manage grids by optimizing IT resources.

ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. Focuses on theory and design of distributed systems. Links to each year's conference page.

Developer of high-performance, high-availability server software for networked applications and services, including Understudy, a utility for web, file, and email server clustering.

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. Research, educational outreach, and supercomputing news.

News and resources on grid computing.

Electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals. The subscription service lets you search, annotate, read and build your own reference collection online.