Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things

by Kai Hwang, Jack Dongarra, Geoffrey C. Fox

From the leading minds in the field, Distributed and Cloud Computing is the first modern, up-to-date distributed systems textbook. Starting with an overview of modern distributed models, the book exposes the design principles, systems architecture, and innovative applications of parallel, distributed, and cloud computing systems. It will teach you how to create high-performance, scalable, reliable systems, providing comprehensive coverage of distributed and cloud computing, including:

Facilitating management, debugging, migration, and disaster recovery through virtualization

Clustered systems for research or ecommerce applications

Designing systems as web services

Social networking systems using peer-to-peer computing

Principles of cloud computing using examples from open-source and commercial applications

Using examples from open-source and commercial vendors, the text describes cloud-based systems for research, e-commerce, social networking and more.

Complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid, service-oriented architecture, massively parallel processors, peer-to-peer networking, and cloud computing
Includes case studies from the leading distributed computing vendors: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and more
Explains how to use virtualization to facilitate management, debugging, migration, and disaster recovey
Designed for undergraduate or graduate students taking a distributed systems course--each chapter includes exercises and further reading, with lecture slides and more available online

672 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2011

Reviews

[Allyson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did ANYONE edit this textbook? Were they American, or even British??!!! Such HORRIBLE grammar and spelling!!! You should really sue your editors...if you really had one at all. I know that my book has mistakes in it, but this was unacceptably stupid. Plus it was so BORING! A perfect example of how professors delude themselves "Each chapter should take you 15 minutes..." my foot. Try 5 hours. There goes 45 hours of my life I'll never get back.

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