Reviews and describes the key concepts, principles and applications of modern distributed computing systems and architectures. This book is useful for both advanced students and practitioners in computer science, computer networks and distributed systems.
Reliable Distributed Computing with the Isis Toolkit presents technical results documenting various internal aspects of Isis along with less technical results illustrating how systems are used to develop closely coupled and fault-tolerant application environments. The text consists of 20 papers that document Isis and describe its important applications. The first section deals with the underlying