A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...

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What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

A Columbia University alumna and University Gold Medalist, Shah represents the next generation of system architects who are redefining how computing infrastructure is designed In a rapidly advancing ...

Description: Design and control of distributed computing systems (operating systems and database systems). Topics include principles of naming and location, atomicity, resource sharing, concurrency ...

For these reasons, designers of complex, data-critical distributed systems are turning to switched fabrics to replace bus back­plane and serial interconnect technologies. StarFabric, PCI Express ...