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 pragma http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/
Research consortium funded by the Australian government and several Australian universities and corporations. Research focuses include CORBA services and distributed databases. http://www.dstc.edu.au/
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 enviro http://dsd.lbl.gov/
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 in http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/tds/homepage.html
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
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/
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/
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/
Research center at Caltech, supporting development of a global-scale wireless distributed computing system that connects people and appliances. http://leecenter.caltech.edu/