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  1-10 of 20 Reviews about "Network Operating Systems (C.2.4...)": Date Reviewed
  Beginning Ubuntu server administration: from novice to professional (Expert’s Voice)
Vugt S., Apress, 2007. 355 pp.  Type: Book

Many Linux-based operating systems are used today. Called distributions, these different flavors of Linux include Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s popularity is growing among users of non-Microsoft operating system...

Mar 11 2009
  Timely offloading of result-data in HPC centers
Monti H., Butt A., Vazhkudai S.  Supercomputing (Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference on Supercomputing, Island of Kos, Greece, Jun 7-12, 2008) 124-133, 2008.  Type: Proceedings

“High-performance computing (HPC) is facing an exponential growth in job output dataset sizes,” which will necessitate a “significant commitment of supercomputing center resources--most notably, p...

Jul 29 2008
  Distributed network systems: from concepts to implementations (Network Theory and Applications)
Jia W., Zhou W., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2006.  Type: Book (9780387238395)

With the emergence and expansion of the World Wide Web, the landscape of distributed network systems and computing has changed dramatically. Distributed systems and computing are no longer the domain of scientific or academic communiti...

Aug 5 2005
  Process migration
Milojičić D., Douglis F., Paindaveine Y., Wheeler R., Zhou S. ACM Computing Surveys 32(3): 241-299, 2000.  Type: Article

This thorough survey first defines process migration and describes its fundamental terms, features, characteristics, and goals. Examples are given from historical systems, Unix-like systems, message passing systems, microkernels, user ...

Jan 1 2002
  Allocating Task Interaction Graphs to Processors in Heterogeneous Networks
Hui C., Chanson S. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 8(9): 908-925, 1997.  Type: Article

Consider a finite network of workstations of varying speeds. Consider also a finite set of tasks and a normalized execution time associated with each task. The task interaction graph has one node for each task, and has an edge between ...

Aug 1 1998
  Win32 client/server developer’s guide
Reilly D., Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Redwood City, CA, 1996.  Type: Book (9780201407624)

Reilly describes the portion of the 32-bit operating system that is common to Windows32, Windows 95, and Windows NT. The book starts by analyzing the meaning of the expression “client/server” and points out that the...

Apr 1 1997
  Distributed Shared Memory: A Survey of Issues and Algorithms
Nitzberg B., Lo V. Computer 24(8): 52-60, 1991.  Type: Article

The use of multiprocessors to increase computing power is attractive. Two kinds of parallel processors have become popular: tightly coupled shared-memory multiprocessors and distributed-memory multiprocessors. A tightly coupled multipr...

Jul 1 1992
  Increasing availability under mutual exclusion constraints with dynamic vote reassignment
Barbara D., Garcia-Molina H., Spauster A. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 7(4): 394-426, 1989.  Type: Article

The techniques for reassigning votes dynamically in a distributed system upon node or link failure discussed in this paper use mutual exclusion constraints and attempt to accomplish higher availability of the distributed system. The au...

Jun 1 1991
  Performance of the Firefly RPC
Schroeder M., Burrows M. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 8(1): 1-17, 1990.  Type: Article

Most computer science research papers in the systems area focus on the design and sometimes the implementation of the system in question. Rarely is the performance of the resulting system measured (assuming the system is actually built...

Jun 1 1991
  Network computing system reference manual
Kong M., Dineen T., Leach P., Martin E., Mishkin N., Pato J., Wyant G., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1990.  Type: Book (9780136170853)

The Network Computing System (NCS) is an implementation to manage distributed computing on homogeneous and heterogeneous computer systems. NCS is a set of tools consisting of a Remote Procedure Call runtime library, a Network Interfac...

Apr 1 1991
 
 
 
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