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Title:Advanced Parallel & Distributed Computing : Evaluation, Improvement & Practice
Series:(Distributed, Cluster & Grid Computing Series, Volume 2)
Author:Yuan-Shun Dai, Yi Pan & Rajeev Raje (eds)
ISBN:1600212026 : 9781600212024
Illustrations:tables & charts
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:322
Weight: .852 Kg.
Published:Nova Science Publishers - December 2006
List Price: 59.5 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Parallel processing


The field of parallel and distributed computing is undergoing changes at a breathtaking pace. Networked computers are now omnipresent in virtually every application, from games to sophisticated space missions. The increasing complexity, heterogeneity, largeness, and dynamism of the emerging pervasive environments and associated applications are challenging the advancement of the parallel and distributed computing paradigm. Many novel infrastructures have been or are being created to provide the necessary computational fabric for realising parallel and distributed applications from diverse domains. New models and tools are also being proposed to evaluate and predict the quality of these complicated parallel and distributed systems. Current and recent past efforts, made to provide the infrastructures and models for such applications, have addressed many underlying complex problems and have thus resulted in new tools and paradigms for effectively realising parallel and distributed systems. This book showcases these novel tools and approaches with inputs from relevant experts.

Preface; Introduction; Dependability Evaluation and Modelling; Security and Trusted Collaborative Computing; Performability Modelling and Evaluation; Survivability Evaluation and Modelling; Towards Optimal Performance in Distributed Memory Systems; Project AutoMate: Enabling Self Managing Grid Applications; Grid Programming Models and Environments; Software Rejuvenation; Uniframe: An Automated Resource Management System; Genetics Algorithms for Scheduling Real-Time Tasks onto Multi-Processors; Autonomic Management of Space Missions; The Next-Generation Wireless Internet; Grid-Email; A Web Based City Navigation Utilising the Mobile Grid.