Burt H. Liebowitz
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 654
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The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce distributed processing concepts. These concepts can be used to determine the relevance of a distributed processing approach to the reader's computing needs. Those considering the use of distributed systems will be confronted with managerial and technical issues, but this tutorial focuses on the technological issues. The technological issues involve communications, intercomputer coupling, executive software structures, system architecture, component selection, and allocation of functions and data files to multiple processors.