glockner%cs@ucsd.edu (Alexander Glockner) (09/22/88)
I am starting my doctoral research in distributed computer systems and would like to know what journals and conference-proceedings I "should" read to stay current. Any suggestions? Also invited are suggestions for "beginners"; those that have taken a ugrad OS course and want to know more about distrib. sys (or for those like me who want to make sure they haven't missed anything :-) Thanks -- glockner%cs@ucsd.edu
eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) (09/23/88)
Well there's the International Journal of Parallel and Dist. Systems.
(Red cover).
There's the usual ACM (SIGOPS, ARCH, COMM) and IEEE Journals.
There's Local Networks and similar (see library).
There's IDCS, the Dist. Comp. Syst. Conference (just held in San Jose)
but has been somewhat uneven.
Big buzz words include: heterogeneity, transparency (as early as
1972 and still not "solved"), and fault-tolerance (oh, inter-operability).
Just spend some time in the library and get my bibliography.
Another gross generalization from
--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov
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