Grid Computing: Practical Guide To Technology & Applications (Programming Series)

By Ahmar Abbas

Linking geographically dispersed computer systems can lead to staggering gains in computing power, speed and productivity. Ahmar Abbas provides an overview of the latest developments in the field of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584502762
• ISBN13: 9781584502760
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Charles River Media
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 7.5"

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Good Overview

The newest, highest performance PC's are more powerful than the biggest supercomputers of the early 1990's. But with the higher computational capacity the bigger the tasks assigned to be computed. Note that these are not your typical business applications. The biggest computational tasks today lie in four areas: atomic energy research, weather prediction, cryptography and bioinformatics. Some of these tasks lend themselves well to being split up amongst a bunch of computers. Cryptography, as an example lends itself well to taking a message and assigning each computer to attack the message with a different key. The processing is independent of the results from other computers attacking the message. What one computer could do eventually, 30,000 or 3 million can do just that much faster. This book is obviously on using a collection of computers, not necessarily co-located to handle such complex computing tasks. A full time practitioner writes it with collaboration from leaders in the field.