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Client Perspective

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Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems

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In this chapter, we drill down on some of the major issues that a cloud computing client system must handle.

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    We say that parallelism is embarrassing if the method of subdividing the computation and performing it is extremely simple. This is in contrast to methods of achieving parallelism that employ complex algorithms and are correspondingly complex to reason about.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Kenneth P. Birman

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Birman, K.P. (2012). Client Perspective. In: Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2416-0_3

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