June 1999
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 21m
English
In pioneer days, they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.
—Grace Hopper
This chapter builds on the compute server we developed in Chapter 6 and explores its use in two directions: First, we are going to extend our simple compute server to make use of a couple of the technologies we covered in the last few chapters, namely transactions and leases. Then, we are going to develop a parallel application on top of the server that will allow us to explore some of the more subtle issues that arise when developing space-based parallel applications. These issues range from ...
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