High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and Systems
Rajkumar Buyya · Prentice Hall PTR eBooks · 1999
From the Publisher: Rapid improvements in network and processor performance are revolutionizing high performance computing, transforming clustered workstations into the solution of choice. This book brings together contributions from more than 100 leading practitioners, offering a single source for up-to-the-minute information on virtually every key system-related issue in high performance cluster computing. The book contains expert coverage of commodity supercomputing systems and architectures; Internet-based wide area metacomputing systems; the role of Java; new applications and algorithms; advanced techniques for enhancing availability and throughput, and much more.