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Grid Computing (On Demand Series)
	Authors: Joshy Joseph, Craig Fellenstein Publisher: IBM Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$34.99~~ Buy New: $5.68 You Save: $29.31 (84%) New (26) Used (16) from $3.91 Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 928792 Media: Paperback Pages: 400 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7 Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.1 ISBN: 0131456601 Dewey Decimal Number: 004.36 UPC: 076092026013 EAN: 9780131456600 ASIN: 0131456601 Publication Date: January 9, 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Condition: May have reminder mark. Otherwise this copy is in the condition as listed.


Editorial Reviews: Product Description According to John Patrick, IBM's vice-president for Internet strategies, "thenext big thing will be grid computing."The purpose of this book will be to describe several interesting and uniqueaspects of this exciting new topic. Grid Computing is a type of parallel anddistributed system set-up that enables and encourages the sharing ofgeographically dispersed resources. In many ways, it represents theconvergence of supercomputing and web services. The book highlights manyachievements in this innovative computer science field, and it is intended to beof value to a wide spectrum of readers around the world regardless. IBM israpidly establishing itself as the global leader in the topic of Grid Computing.This book not only address IBM's leadership progress in the field, but otherglobal enterprise initiatives, specific areas of interests, synergies between manyenterprise partners in this field, and current/future deliveries in the field ofGrid Computing. Today, there is no other book like this one that explains thepromise and IBM's plans for this important initiative.