Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Fundamentals. Computer Networks. Message Passing. Remote Procedure Calls. Distributed Shared Memory. Synchronization. Resource Management. Process Management. Distributed File Systems. Naming. Security. Case Studies. Index.

About the Author

Pradeep K. Sinha has been involved in the research and development of distributed systems for almost a decade. At present, Dr. Sinha is the coordinator of the Software Integration and Engineering Group at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C--DAC), Pune, India. C--DAC is Indiaa s national initiative in developing supercomputing facilities based on distributed--memory architecture. Before joining C--DAC, Dr. Sinha worked with the Multimedia Systems Research Laboratory of Panasonic in Tokyo, Japan, where he coordinated projects in the area of distributed and network systems. Dr. Sinha received his Doctor of Science degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he was a key member of the Galaxy Distributed Operating Systems Group, and has authored a number of papers on distributed systems.