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- From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
- Subject: Re: RPC programmer's Guide/Text
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:49:57 GMT
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- sun030@joy.cs.uakron.edu (JAYARAM S AKULA) writes:
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- > Iam looking for a good Text/Guide for developing
- > applications based on RPc's...( other than manuals )
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- > any info in this regard is highly apprecited...
- >
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- You should find the following book useful ...
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- Samuel Ko (kko@sfu.ca) ... The Maintainer of "A Concise Guide to Unix Books"
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- Power Programming with RPC
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- By John Bloomer
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- 530 pages
- ISBN: 0-937175-77-3
- $29.95
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- 1st Edition February 1992
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- Book Description:
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- RPC, or remote procedure calling, is the ability to distribute parts of
- a program to other computers on a network. An RPC facility manages the
- exchange of data between computers to make remote execution tranparent
- to the user. Distributed applications based on RPC can utilize network
- resources and increase significantly the computing power brought to bear
- on complex problems.
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- An RPC facility is one element of a distributed computing environment.
- There are currently two major distributed computing environments that
- are proposed as emerging standards: the Open Networking Consortium
- (ONC), based on technology by Sun Microsystems, and the Open Software
- Foundation's DCE, largely based on Apollo's Network Computing System
- (NCS). This book examines both ONC and DCE; however, all examples are
- developed using ONC because that is the only RPC readily available now.
- The techniques covered in the book are applicable to either system.
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- The standard-issue RPC documentation is difficult to understand and
- lacks real-world examples. There are, in addition, many techniques to
- learn. This book, written from a programmer's perspective, shows you
- what you can do with RPC and presents a framework for learning it.
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- Contents include:
- - foundations of remote procedure calling; what it is, how it works,
- and which vendors support it
- - what RPC offers to application and product developers
- - how RPC fits into a distributed computing environment
- - ONC and DCE, a comparison of their similarities and differences
- - how to develop, debug, and deploy networked applications
- - understanding the interprocess control (IPC) mechanisms on which RPC
- is based
- - using remote procedure calling in parallel/distributed processing and
- scheduling
- - using remote procedure calling with windowing systems
- - examples of distributed applications using both single and multiple
- concurrent servers
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- Author Information:
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- John Bloomer has held microelectronic design positions with Texas
- Instruments and General Electric. He has been involved in the design
- and specification of memory, special-function graphics and signal
- processing hardware at the chip and algorithmic level. John currently
- works within the Signal and Image Coding and Processing group at GE's
- Corporate R&D Center. Technical interests and areas of publication
- include distributed processing, multidimensional signal processing,
- neural and parallel VLSI architectures.
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- John earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Clarkson University in
- 1983 and a M.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Central
- Florida in 1986. He is pursuing a Ph.D. at Rensselaer Polytechnic
- Institute. He currently lives in Schenectady, N.Y., with his wife,
- Cathy, and three children, Natalie, Megan, and Audrey.
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