{"product_id":"distributed-system-design-9780367447779","title":"Distributed System Design","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jie Wu\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Computer Engineering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFuture requirements for computing speed, system reliability, and cost-effectiveness entail the development of alternative computers to replace the traditional von Neumann organization. As computing networks come into being, one of the latest dreams is now possible - distributed computing. \u003cbr\u003eDistributed computing brings transparent access to as much computer power and data as the user needs for accomplishing any given task - simultaneously achieving high performance and reliability.\u003cbr\u003eThe subject of distributed computing is diverse, and many researchers are investigating various issues concerning the structure of hardware and the design of distributed software. Distributed System Design defines a distributed system as one that looks to its users like an ordinary system, but runs on a set of autonomous processing elements (PEs) where each PE has a separate physical memory space and the message transmission delay is not negligible. With close cooperation among these PEs, the system supports an arbitrary number of processes and dynamic extensions.\u003cbr\u003eDistributed System Design outlines the main motivations for building a distributed system, including: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003einherently distributed applications\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eperformance\/cost\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eresource sharing\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eflexibility and extendibility\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eavailability and fault tolerance\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003escalability\u003cbr\u003ePresenting basic concepts, problems, and possible solutions, this reference serves graduate students in distributed system design as well as computer professionals analyzing and designing distributed\/open\/parallel systems.\u003cbr\u003eChapters discuss: \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ethe scope of distributed computing systems\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003egeneral distributed programming languages and a CSP-like distributed control description language (DCDL)\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eexpressing parallelism, interprocess communication and synchronization, and fault-tolerant design\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003etwo approaches describing a distributed system: the time-space view and the interleaving view\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003emutual exclusion and related issues, including election, bidding, and self-stabilization\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eprevention and detection of deadlock\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ereliability, safety, and security as well as various methods of handling node, communication, Byzantine, and software faults\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eefficient interprocessor communication mechanisms as well as these mechanisms without specific constraints, such as adaptiveness, deadlock-freedom, and fault-tolerance\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003evirtual channels and virtual networks\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eload distribution problems\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003esynchronization of access to shared data while supporting a high degree of concurrency\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45240779079831,"sku":"9780367447779","price":5278.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780367447779.webp?v=1769226606","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/distributed-system-design-9780367447779","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}