Peer-to-Peer Computing Building Supercomputers with Web Technologies /

• Main Author: Loo, Alfred Wai-Sing (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Series: Computer Communications and Networks
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer hardware.; Computer organization.; Microprocessors.; Computer communication systems.; Architecture, Computer.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Computer System Implementation.; Processor Architectures.; Computer Hardware.

Client/Server architecture was first proposed in the late 1980s as an alternative to conventional mainframe systems. Mainframe processing quickly becomes a bottleneck in any information system, but client/server models shift the processing burden to the client computer. Through workload sharing, cli...