High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and Systems, Vol. 1 - Softcover

Buyya, Rajkumar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130137847 ISBN 13: 9780130137845

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1999

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to state-of-the art clusters technology for professionals and graduate-level CS students. Covers hardware as well as software issues, including topics such as: active messages and lightweight protocols, message passing systems. Cluster computers can deliver better performance than traditional mainframes and super computers at a much lower hardware cost.

About this title

From the Author

Author Page of this Book
Dear Colleagues,

I just happen to notice a comment from one of our prospective readers, who is keen on looking at the book table of contents, etc. Hence, thought I should create a website of the book providing latest on-line information related to the book along with the following information:

- The complete table of contents - Preface - A sample chapter - Educational Resources

Links to free-ware/public domain software related to cluster computing: * Fast Communication Protocols * A complete cluster environment * Cluster Management Systems * Programming Environments like MPI and PVM * Sample Parallel Applications * Parallel Computing on Lunux/NT * and much more.

I am also including known links to universities adopting this book. Please visit book website maintained by me for more information at:

http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/hpcc.html OR http://www.bigfoot.com/~buyya/hpcc.html

If you are a faculty member and would like to use this book in your course, please contact me. I may be able to provide you more teaching resources.

Another information on Cluster Computing:

By recognizing the growing requirements of cluster computing, IEEE Computer Society has formed a task force:

IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) URL: http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/tfcc/

From TFCC website, you will find a lot of information related to cluster computing provided by leading experts of the field.

I welcome your suggestions and please feel free to contact me by email either at rajkumar@ieee.org or buyya@computer.org or rajkumar@dgs.monash.edu.au.

I hope you will find the book useful and interesting.

All the best.

Yours Sincrely,

Rajkumar Buyya

http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/hpcc.html

From the Back Cover

1378D-4

Cluster computing: the state-of-the-art in theory and practice

Rapid improvements in network and processor performance are revolutionizing high-performance computing, transforming clustered commodity workstations into the supercomputing solution of choice. This book brings together contributions from more than 100 leading practitioners, offering a single source for up-to-the-minute information on virtually every key system-related issue in high-performance cluster computing.

The book contains expert coverage of "commodity supercomputing" systems and architectures; Internet-based wide area "metacomputing" systems; the role of Java; new applications and algorithms; advanced techniques for enhancing availability and throughput; and much more. Discover the state-of-the-art in:

• Communal multiprocessing/adaptive parallelism techniques for resource sharing
• Networking, lightweight protocols, active messages, "killer switches," and I/O
• Cluster middleware and resource management systems
• Cluster computing programming environments, tools, and paradigms
• Administering high-performance clustered systems

High Performance Cluster Computing, Volume 1: Architectures and Systems captures the remarkable breadth, depth, and power of the cluster computing revolution. Whatever your role in high-performance parallel computing - developer, researcher, administrator, instructor, or manager - this is the one book you cannot be without.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0130137847
• ISBN 13: 9780130137845
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 896