Peer-to-peer computing : building supercomputers with Web technologies

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Label

Peer-to-peer computing : building supercomputers with Web technologies

Title remainder

building supercomputers with Web technologies

Statement of responsibility

Alfred Wai-Sing Loo

Creator

• Loo, Alfred Wai-Sing, 1951-

Subject

• Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks)
• Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks)
• Informatique
• Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks)
• Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks)

Language

eng

Summary

Client/Server architecture was first proposed in the late 1980s as an alternative to conventional mainframe systems. Mainframe processing quickly becomes a bottleneck in any information system, but client/server models shift the processing burden to the client computer. Through workload sharing, client/server systems can improve overall efficiency while reducing budgets. Companies are again searching for ways to improve their processing power without further investment in new hardware and software. Many client computers are idle most of the time, and have unused disk space. The next logical step is to maximise the resources of these computers, and the peer-to-peer (P2P) model is the answer. A new and simple peer-to-peer model will be introduced in this book. In it: Readers will be taught to install peer-to-peer systems which can then manage and distribute the processing power of any number of clients. The size of network can range from two to over a million computers. The software necessary to implement peer-to-peer systems quickly can be downloaded from the book's website at www.springer.com/1-84628-381-7/ The deployment of web technologies will enable individuals and organisations of all sizes to use computers across a network as though it were a single supercomputer to solve complex problems, and after reading this book, readers will be able to install a peer-to-peer system of any size

Member of

• Computer communications and networks

Cataloging source

GW5XE

Dewey number

004.65

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

TK5105.525

LC item number

.L66 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Computer communications and networks