Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction
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Principles of Computer System Design is the first textbook to take a principles-based approach to the computer system design. It identifies, examines, and illustrates fundamental concepts in computer system design that are common across operating systems, networks, database systems, distributed systems, programming languages, software engineering, security, fault tolerance, and architecture.
Through carefully analyzed case studies from each of these disciplines, it demonstrates how to apply these concepts to tackle practical system design problems. To support the focus on design, the text identifies and explains abstractions that have proven successful in practice such as remote procedure call, client/service organization, file systems, data integrity, consistency, and authenticated messages. Most computer systems are built using a handful of such abstractions. The text describes how these abstractions are implemented, demonstrates how they are used in different systems, and prepares the reader to apply them in future designs.
The book is recommended for junior and senior undergraduate students in Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Distributed Operating Systems and/or Computer Systems Design courses; and professional computer systems designers.Concepts of computer system design guided by fundamental principlesCross-cutting approach that identifies abstractions common to networking, operating systems, transaction systems, distributed systems, architecture, and software engineeringCase studies that make the abstractions real: naming (DNS and the URL); file systems (the UNIX file system); clients and services (NFS); virtualization (virtual machines); scheduling (disk arms); security (TLS)Numerous pseudocode fragments that provide concrete examples of abstract conceptsExtensive support. The authors and MIT OpenCourseWare provide on-line, free of charge, open educational resources, including additional chapters, course syllabi, board layouts and slides, lecture videos, and an archive of lecture schedules, class assignments, and design projects
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Publication date : July 7, 2009
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 560 pages
ISBN-10 : 0123749573
ISBN-13 : 978-0123749574
Item Weight : 9.9 ounces
Dimensions : 7.5 x 1.27 x 9.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,229,341 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #125 in Microprocessor Design #329 in Computer Systems Analysis & Design (Books) #1,053 in Operating Systems (Books)
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