Distributed

Overall, I was very happy with this book. The use of C++ instead of straight C made it difficult (but not impossible) to port the example code. The explainations of Winsock programming were first rate, however. No winsock programmer should be without this book.

I need code or information for conection for Interne

Chambers, Schnoor and Hamilton have put together a concise non-technical book on some very technical issues.

Their research is detailed, accurate and extensive. The book is well written.

In these days of rapid change in power generation technology, this book will be outdated within 10 years, though the issues raised here will not be.

Regardless, it's a great read full of great information on a subject that is important to us all.

This book by Ann Chambers depicts the growing Distributed Generation Energy industry with an impressive and wide-ranging command of the facts but with little in the way of hard-to-understand "under the hood" technical lingo. Effects of this burgeoning technology is documented for both the national and international markets; case studies describe the relative successes of DG installation. I cannot think of a better way to start -- as a company owner, as an investor, as a policymaker -- to begin than with this book.

Concepts and coverage is excellent for learning and the content are not too in-depth especially towards a student. Cover areas like file organisation as well as memory management which is lacking in many similar topic publications. Chapters discussed are comprehensive and relevant to learners in these fields. Diagrams are illustrative and easy to understand. A good choice especially to students that are beginners in operating systems concepts.

I am a faculty member in Computer Science at Georgia Southwestern State University, USA. I have used this book for a course on Distributed Operating Systems for graduate students. During the process of selecting a book for this course, I have looked into a number of books on this topic. Finally I selected this book due to the following reasons: 1. The content is clear start from the beginning. 2. Same (lucid) style of explanation throughout the book. 3. The material is complete in so many aspects. 4. Up to date (till the date of publication). 5. A clever student can read it and understand on his/her own.

What else I want? Great job!!

I am looking forward for the second edition of this book!

Bhanu Prasad

This book could serve as a text book for an class in agent technology. In particular, the formal description of communication theory in chapter 3, "Logical Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence" is a must read for any serious student of the field. This text is not for the average reader, but is invaluable to anyone who intends to pursue serious work in the field of DAI.

This book is the best source for obtaining knowledge about Distributed AI and Intelligent Agents. In particular I will recommend the chapters about coordination techniques and negotiation in multi-agent systems, as well as the thorough introduction (with a lot of good references!).

Chapters in this book covers about half of the curriculum in the "Distributed AI and Intelligent Agents" course at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Note: students* find this book rather tough to read!

Grid computing is extensively described here as a means of providing high powered utility computing on demand. Currently, its potential is mostly unrealised. Many companies and universities have different grid implementations, as described by the authors. The universities' main motivation is to dragoon enough computing resources for hard research problems. While in the commercial sector, computer companies like IBM want to sell on demand access as a means of entering a hopefully vast new market.

The grid approaches in the book collectively can be contrasted with p2p computing. Grid systems tend to use more diverse and powerful hardware and relatively small number of users. Think of this as the high end, while p2p is low end (e.g. the SETI desktop application). The book describes the vast amount of effort that has gone into devising grid standards and the various toolkits, most notably Globus.

A potential problem which may occur to the reader of this book is the sheer complexity of the grid approach. Its proponents argue that this is necessary complexity. But perhaps a p2p methodology might be easier to understand and use.

An analogy is with the X.400 and X.500 email and directory standards. While these are used by some companies, many have not done so. Due to the complexity and slowness. Too heavyweight. The danger for grid computing is meeting a similar fate. It may end up occupying a small high value niche, but no more.

The authors have written a fine book on the potential, execution and practicality of Grid or Utility Computing. It is large ( 400 pages ) and well written book, technically accurate and blends well with other industry strategies such as on demand and Autonomic Computing. The chapters on open standards are particularly strong, well thought out and presented. The book is designed well and book production, diagrams, layout is nothing short of highest quality - in short, excellent.

The prospect of true utility computing is within reach and technically feasible. The authors bring together best deployment practices, practical guidance on integrating existing resources, and applicable case studies. This book goes a long way to assisting that projection and should become a classic standard in the field.

Full kudos~! - and a doff of the hat to both authors.

I think this book is more suitable for people working with databases -distributed or not- than for students. It is useful for distributed databases managers to have a guide and source of new ideas, and for non distributed databases managers to start to think about the way they could apply this to their own organization. Short chapters offer the necessary information; for a deeper analysis of the subject another book should be used.

I found this book to be very useful for understanding the concepts of database links and SQL*Net for Oracle databases. The general overview was also quite good.

Great job at making sense of the unification of IP, Optical technologies and MPLS. Super reference!!!

Convergence and unification of protocols for optical networks is a must to bring next generation high-speed applications with low-costs to any individual customer.
This book prepares the practitioning network-engineer and -designer optimally for this task: SDH/SONET vs. ATM vs. MPLS is today's struggle for unified protocols in future fiber optic networks providing the delivery of any IP-service to the customer at low-cost and high quality of service.
The book is strictly future oriented, well written and covers all relevant topics with sufficient depths, but is not overloaded with details. For those readers interested in more specific aspects, it provides a lot of "further readings" and references.
I have enjoyed reading "Next Generation Optical Networks" very much and it is always at hand at the pile top of my book shelf.

This book is a very readable introduction to parallel and distributed computing. It presents concepts well, and offers enough examples to allow one to make sure they have a firm grasp on what is being presented. It is NOT a textbook. It is not full of code, or detailed descriptions of exactly how to implement a parallel/distributed system in a given situation. Those already expert in the field or those seeking low-level detail and code should look elsewhere. I recommend this book to everyone else.

Parallel and Distributed Simulation Systems, by Richard Fujimoto, brings together all of the leading techniques for designing and operating parallel and distributed simulations. This is the first book to bring this material in a single source. Previously, simulation developers had to research a library to journal and conference articles to identify, master, and select techniques appropriate to their problem.

Fujimoto divides the material into three sections. The first introduces the reader to the real world problems that have given rise to the need for PADS techniques. He also includes an introduction to the field of discrete event simulation, laying the necessary groundwork for the reader to understand the rest of the book.

In the second section the book begins to describe many of the techniques that are used to accomplish parallel or distributed operations for discrete event simulations. These are presented very clearly and most readers will grasp them immediately. In this section, the reader gains an appreciation for the difficulty involved in creating parallel simulations that maintain the causality of events within the entire simulation. Distributing the application across multiple computers has the potential to greatly increase its execution speed, but must do so without jeopardizing the causal accuracy of the simulation. Topics covered include conservative synchronization, time warp, deadlock avoidance, lookahead, repeatability, global virtual time, scheduling, and performance. Fujimoto also includes a description of the Georgia Tech Time Warp system in which he and others have implemented many of these techniques.

Finally, the third section describes the application of PADS techniques to distributed virtual environments. Fujimoto focuses distributed military training systems and points toward the potential for applying these techniques in entertainment applications. This section is motivated by a description of the evolution of distributed military training using protocols like simulator networking (SIMNET), distributed interactive simulation (DIS), aggregate level simulation protocol (ALSP), and the more recent high level architecture (HLA). Fujimoto takes great care to describe how PADS techniques are used within software implementations of the HLA. Topics include distributed interactive simulation, dead reckoning, the high level architecture, network technologies, communication protocols, data distribution management, and message ordering.

The book is an essential tool for those creating parallel or distributed simulation applications or conducting research in the field. It provides and excellent level of detail and sufficient explanation to allow others to implement the techniques. It is available directly from Wiley-Interscience and from most of the Web-based bookstores.

This book is a good introduction to programming in the Windows NT environment. A good starting point for those new to Windows NT.

This book represents an exemplary survey for the C++ programmer on how to develop for Windows NT. It starts with an excellent survey of NT architecture then proceeds with several chapters on an overview of the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). The strength of this work is that each chapter is succinct and relatively complete. Since MFC is so rich with features, it is extremely difficult for a programmer coming from another environment (i.e. UNIX) to see the NT landscape. This book is outstanding in this regard. After going over a chapter in this book, one can approach the Microsoft documentation without feeling intimidated.

This book concentrates on the design and philosophy behind SAP's R/3 system. As such, it has a more theoretical than practical focus, but it is well written and very useful to understanding how the system works. This is the English edition of a book originally published in German.

The book is very good if you are interested in the technology behind client server systems. The first half of the book deals with this. In the second half SAP is explained, the technology and the business applications. Altogether a good introduction for a technical oriented person into the world of client server technology, especially the SAP r3 client server approach and possibilties for business solutions.