Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Practice

By Doreen L. Galli

Doreen Galli uses her considerable academic and professional experience to bring together the worlds of theory and practice providing leading edge solutions to tomorrows challenges. Distributed... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130798436
• ISBN13: 9780130798435
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 0.9" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended...

This book has all the right material (and more). I found the topics to be presented in a straightforward and easy to understand manner just as most here have said. There's even a glossary and a list of acronyms provided which is a helpful tool. What else could you want? I would highly recommend checking this one out. Oh, and the couple naysay blurbs here are nonsensical as this has got to be one of the best books in its class.

Helped me land!

Let's face it ... the IT market is near the bottom. A colleague (or should I say former colleague) handed me this book to 'freshen' up before that all important interview. It was quick and easy to read and helped me put some meat behind what I had been doing as well as articulate and formalize my knowledge. I think this is exactly what gave me the edge in the interviews (endless rounds of interviews). Now I not only landed but went from a senior engineer to a chief architect with a bump in pay. I just grabbed a copy for myself as I'm sure this is one book I will be referring to quite often. All in all - content wise I'd highly recommend this book. On the part of editing - well - not the best but the content is what I needed and got. RWChief Architect

Clear and Practical in a Computer System Book! Bravo!

Let me tell you, I bought this book after seeing the author speak at N+I in Las Vegas and boy am I glad I did. Refreshingly different, it was not only clear and to the point but practical as well. It was easy to tell Galli has been there and done it and it really helped me get it. Some books are so fluffy and try to bury you in useless theory without relating it to what we need to know when we design and develop real systems in the Internet space. Not this one. As a bonus, the glossary and acronym list was quite helpful since I didn't have to figure out where the word was defined when I jumped to a topic using the index. Great for spot reading.On a school note, I took a course for my M.S. that used the Tanenbaum book. This overall was much more helpful. Actually some of my classmates couldn't figure out why I knew what was going on in class so quickly. I would say, scrap the class book and grab this one. Sure there are some typos as people mentioned in their reviews but at least the material can readily be understood. If only other computer authors could be understood this easily.JMHO.

An important contribution to distributed computing

The objective of the book is to cover major aspects of distributed operating systems from a conceptual and practical viewpoint. The book introduces basic networking concepts, considers popular interconnection networks for parallel and distributed systems, explains the architectural concepts related to kernels, processes and threads, process management and scheduling, and different techniques for interprocess communication (such as pipes, Internet sockets, and RPC). The emphasis is on such fundamental topics of distributed systems (DS) as concurrency control, distributed file processing, transaction management, consistency models, distributed process management, and distributed synchronization. Due attention is paid to object-based systems and middleware(Amoeba, Clouds, Chorus, DCOM, CORBA). Of a special interest is the case-study chapter on Windows 2000 OS which is designed to provide a broad spectrum of services for the development and implementation of DSs and which is claimed to become one of the technological milestones in the new millenium. Written in a clear and technically sound language, without unnecessary details, the book is primarily for teaching the subject at the senior undergraduate and first graduate levels. A student will not be overloaded by formal aspects and annoying theoretical considerations. Instead, he is offered a very well organized text, with simple yet highly informative figures, a mass of quite relevant exercises and project topics. The book includes accurately classified and commented references for further study which is especially important for practitioners wishing to get more deep understanding of the topics. This is definitely the text that should be used by all those who want to seriously start working in the fascinating field of distributed computing.