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

✍ Scribed by Joachim Peinke, Peter Schaumann, Stephan Barth

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Series: Computer Communications and Networks
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Client/Server architecture was first proposed in the late 1980s as an alternative to conventional mainframe systems. Mainframe processing quickly becomes a bottleneck in any information system, but client/server models shift the processing burden to the client computer. Through workload sharing, client/server systems can improve overall efficiency while reducing budgets.

Companies are again searching for ways to improve their processing power without further investment in new hardware and software. Many client computers are idle most of the time, and have unused disk space. The next logical step is to maximise the resources of these computers, and the peer-to-peer (P2P) model is the answer.

A new and simple peer-to-peer model will be introduced in this book. In it:

• Readers will be taught to install peer-to-peer systems which can then manage and distribute the processing power of any number of clients.

• The size of network can range from two to over a million computers.

• The software necessary to implement peer-to-peer systems quickly can be downloaded from the book’s website at www.springer.com/1-84628-381-7/

The deployment of web technologies will enable individuals and organisations of all sizes to use computers across a network as though it were a single supercomputer to solve complex problems, and after reading this book, readers will be able to install a peer-to-peer system of any size.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Peer-to-Peer Computing......Page 4
Contents......Page 7
1 Overview of Peer-to-Peer System......Page 11
2 File-Sharing Peer-to-Peer System......Page 19
3 The Need for More Powerful Computers......Page 28
4 Problems and Solutions......Page 38
5 Web Server and Related Technologies......Page 44
6 Introduction to Servlets......Page 66
7 Java Network Programming......Page 77
8 Testing and Enhancements of Servlets......Page 101
9 Power Server: Model 1......Page 116
10 Power Server: Model 2......Page 144
11 Power Server: Model 3......Page 157
12 Power Server: Model 4......Page 175
13 Power Server: Model 5......Page 185
14 Wireless P2P System......Page 198
15 Implementation of Wireless P2P Systems......Page 206
16 Computer Architecture......Page 219
17 Distributed and Parallel Algorithms......Page 237
18 Infrastructure and Future Development......Page 250
Appendix A: Data-Sharing P2P Algorithm......Page 258
Appendix B: Useful Websites......Page 270
Bibliography......Page 272
Index......Page 277