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

✍ Scribed by Alfred Wai-Sing Loo BSc, MSc, PhD, MBCS, MIMA, CEng, CSci, CMath, CITP (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• 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

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Overview of Peer-to-Peer System....Pages 1-8
File-Sharing Peer-to-Peer System....Pages 9-17
The Need for More Powerful Computers....Pages 18-27
Problems and Solutions....Pages 28-33
Web Server and Related Technologies....Pages 34-55
Introduction to Servlets....Pages 56-66
Java Network Programming....Pages 67-90
Testing and Enhancements of Servlets....Pages 91-105
Power Server: Model 1....Pages 106-133
Power Server: Model 2....Pages 134-146
Power Server: Model 3....Pages 147-164
Power Server: Model 4....Pages 165-174
Power Server: Model 5....Pages 175-187
Wireless P2P System....Pages 188-195
Implementation of Wireless P2P Systems....Pages 196-208
Computer Architecture....Pages 209-226
Distributed and Parallel Algorithms....Pages 227-239
Infrastructure and Future Development....Pages 240-247
Back Matter....Pages 248-268

✦ Subjects

Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Computer System Implementation; Computer Communication Networks; Processor Architectures; Computer Hardware