Dcos is a distributed computing package for shells. That is it will take any arbitrary program and parallelize it across shell accounts with potentially restricted resources.
Fnorb is a CORBA 2.0 ORB for Python first developed by DSTC (http://www.dstc.edu.au). Our project will take the formerly closed Fnorb source-base and turn it into a pure-python ORB with up-to-date Python mapping and CORBA 2.4 compliance (ie POA support).