Abstract
This chapter provides an introduction to parallel and distributed systems and their benefits in performance, resource sharing, extendibility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. It outlines parallel and distributed computing approaches and paradigm, and outlines the opportunities and challenges of high performance parallel and distributed computing. Finally, it presents a three-tiered distributed system design framework to highlight architectural issues, services and candidate technologies for implementing parallel/distributed computing systems and applications.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Computing |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Pages | 1-10 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780471474838 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780471332886 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science