Distributed Information Resources, Volume 48 (Advances in Computers)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: September 3, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780120121489
First sentence: Distributed computing helps improve application performance through multi-processing; reliability and availability through replication; scalability, extensibility, and portability through modularity; and cost effectiveness though resources sharing and open systems.