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Network Distributed Computing: Fitscapes and Fallacies
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Network Distributed Computing: Fitscapes and Fallacies

by Max K. Goff
April 2004
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 21m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 3. The Scope of NDC

Since December 1969, when the ARPANET project created the first modern packet-switched network—the genesis of today's Internet—the challenge and promise of NDC has resulted in an explosion of investment, research, and software development. Ensuing efforts encompass nearly all aspects of computer science today.

The scope of NDC is quite impressive. No other single aspect of computer science research and development quite compares with the myriad problem spaces enjoined when computers communicate, swap data, and share processing responsibilities. This chapter presents an overview of some of the many relevant areas of NDC research and development today.

Each of these areas is a moving target, in that while progress is being ...

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