A Calculus of Distributed and Parallel Processes - Brossura

Cap, Clemens H.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 3519002930 ISBN 13: 9783519002932

Casa editrice: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 2000

Riassunto

It is the good reader that makes the good book. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Society & Solitude. In the course of two projects, the author of this book was involved in the design of the platforms PARFORM [CS93) and LOLA [Cap94), [CS) for the support of parallel computing in distributed systems. The former system was geared towards the highly efficient use of idle resources in networks of workstations, and the latter system was intended as a scalability study: How many workstations in the global Internet can be used simultaneously for solving a massively parallel problem? In one of the experiments conducted with these systems, up to 800 workstations on all five continents were cooperating for the solution of a search problem from molecular biology [Cap94). The most important lessons which the author was forced to learn during the course of these projects were not to rely on any documentation of network-and low-level system-calls, to use neither common sense nor mathematical logic during the design of a large distributed system, but to be happy with a working program, and not to ask, why it would work.

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Prof.Dr. Clemens H. Cap, Universität Rostock

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This book introduces a process calculus for parallel, distributed and reactive systems. It describes the conceptual foundations as well as the mathematical theory behind a programming language, and a number of application examples. The chosen approach provides a framework for understanding the semantics of parallel and distributed systems. Moreover, it can be directly applied to practical problems.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3519002930
• ISBN 13: 9783519002932
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile