Peer-to-Peer Computing: Building Supercomputers with Web Technologies

Citation

Mann, C.J.H. (2007), "Peer-to-Peer Computing: Building Supercomputers with Web Technologies", Kybernetes, Vol. 36 No. 3/4. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2007.06736cae.001

Peer-to-Peer Computing: Building Supercomputers with Web Technologies

Peer-to-Peer Computing: Building Supercomputers with Web Technologies

Alfred Wai-Sing LooSpringerHeidelberg2007ISBN 1-84628-381-7US $79.95 (Softcover)213 pp. (with illustrations)

Keywords:Computing, Cybernetics, Systems

So far the remarkable development of web technologies has brought to us the means of unprecedent communication. It is almost the case that individuals and indeed organisations with little knowledge of these advances can use systems that are capable of solving some of the most complex problems. This book, the author writes, aims at explaining how the deployment of these developments will enable both individuals and organisations of all sizes to use computers across a network as though it were one single supercomputer. The potential is enormous and systems users will be presented with a unique and exciting facility. The publishers of this text, which is produced in the series “Computer Communications and Networks” believe that its readers will be able to install a peer-to-peer systems of any size to meet their own requirements.

What the author presents is a “new and simple” peer-to-peer system in a form that will, it is claimed, allow readers to manage and distribute the processing power and disk space of any number of user clients.