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Grid networks: enabling grids with advanced communication technology
Travostino F., John Wiley&Sons, New York, NY, 2006. 372 pp. Type: Book (9780470017487)
Few if any texts cover the topics of both grid computing and networking. This one does so with a depth that is likewise rare. I have been a grid architect for a number of years, and one thing that I emphasize to my clients over and ove...
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Apr 16 2007 |
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Grid computing
Dikaiakos M., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2004. 272 pp. Type: Book (9783540228882)
It is very interesting to see how much the topic of grid computing has grown and expanded over the past few years. To me, the most interesting aspect of this is that much of the research going on in academia has a direct application in...
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Nov 10 2006 |
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Robust Java: exception handling, testing and debugging
Stelting S., Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2005. 368 pp. Type: Book (9780131008526)
Java has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade. There are numerous third-party libraries, core language improvements, and so on available for use. All of these advancements mean code complexity and more ways to “shoot ...
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Feb 27 2006 |
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 Grid resource management: state of the art and future trends
Nabrzyski J., Schopf J., Weglarz J. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2004. Type: Divisible Book
The editors have done a great job in putting together a text that details current trends, products, and research in grid computing, from start to finish. The text starts with a handful of papers that offer an overview of grid computing...
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Aug 30 2005 |
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Next generation of data-mining applications
Kantardzic M., Zurada J., Wiley-IEEE Press, 2005. Type: Book (9780471656050)
The field of data mining has been growing tremendously in the past few years, and this growth is just the beginning. Data mining is a multidisciplinary field that borrows techniques and methods from computer science and engineering, in...
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Jul 26 2005 |
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Advanced computer architecture and parallel processing (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)
El-Rewini H., Abd-El-Barr M., Wiley-Interscience, 2005. Type: Book (9780471467403)
El-Rewini and Abd-El-Barr use a bottom-up approach to tackle the topic of high-performance computing and architecture. They start by covering the four basic hardware architectural patterns: single instruction single data (SISD), single...
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Apr 14 2005 |
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Grid computing: making the global infrastructure a reality
Berman F., Fox G., Hey A., Hey T. (ed), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 2003. 1012 pp. Type: Book (9780470853191)
Each of the four parts of this book on grid computing looks at the topic in a different light. Unlike other books on the topic, the authors chosen may not have the same points of view, for example on how scheduling should be done, or o...
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Feb 14 2005 |
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Problem solving with C++: the object of programming (5th ed.)
Savitch W., Pearson Addison Wesley, 2004. Type: Book (9780321268655)
Even with the vast growth and wide acceptance of C# and Java, C++ is still frequently the language of choice when teaching first-year computer science students. C++ can be more complex than the other “newer” program...
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Jan 24 2005 |
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Introduction to parallel computing (Oxford Texts in Applied and Engineering Mathematics)
Arbenz P., Petersen W., Oxford University Press, 2004. Type: Book (9780198515760)
Petersen and Arbenz demonstrate the complexities and benefits of parallel computing. Their text is a good mix of background introduction, mathematical theory, and applications of parallel computing in the scientific fields, and ends wi...
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Nov 4 2004 |
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A component-based design and compositional verification of a fault-tolerant multimedia communication protocol
Hanumantharaya A., Sinha P., Agarwal A. Real-Time Imaging 9(6): 401-422, 2003. Type: Article
Hanumantharaya, Sinha, and Agarwal present a novel way of creating fault tolerant programs from fault intolerant programs, using what they call detectors and correctors. The specific domain of their application is multimedia protocols....
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