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Hydra
Early capability-based OS kernel for multiprocessing environments, gave fine-grained protection. Goals: universal applicability, absolute reliability.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~gribble/osprelims/summaries/hydr a.html

The Logical Disk: A New Approach to Improving File Systems
Paper by Wiebren de Jonge, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Wilson C. Hsieh (1993). [PDF]
http://www2.cs.utah.edu/~wilson/papers/logical-disk.pdf

RTG: Real Time Systems Group
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Goal: develop methods, tools, systems to facilitate designing and implementing reliable distributed RT systems. Current projects: developing specification and analysis methods for RT systems, probabilistic modeling and analysis, schedulability analysis, run-time monitoring/checking, RT wireless communication and hybrid systems.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~rtg/

Chimera
Multitasking, multiprocessor OS with features of commercial realtime OSs; as fast as VxWorks, OS-9, VRTX, LynxOS; 10 times faster in some cases: interprocessor communication. VMEbus-based, supports C/C++, goal: support developing dynamically reconfigurable software for robotic and automation systems .
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~aml/chimera/chimera.html