Silicon Press: Programming Distributed Systems

Discusses issues in the programming of distributed systems: with and without programming language support. Surveys languages for programming distributed systems, the shared-data model and its implementation, and concludes by evaluating the performance of non-trivial distributed programs. An excellent book for those interested in distributed programming.

Chapters:

Introduction
Distributed Programming Without Language Support
Language Support for Distributed Programming
Languages for Programming Distributed Systems
The Shared Data-Object Model
Implementation
Example Programs and their Performance
Conclusions
Appendix A: Matrix Multiplication
Appendix B: The All-pairs Shortest Path Problem
Appendix C: The Traveling Salesman Problem
Appendix D: Alpha-Beta Search
Appendix E: Successive Overrelaxation
Appendix F: Performance of the Orca Programs
Appendix G: Performance of the C/Amoeba Programs
Index