Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design [Book Reviews]

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1, performance. An outline of h design and a prelction of future trends follow In conclusion, the authors make the very valid statement that (‘the future of generalpurpose, hgh-performance multiprocessing belongs to SSMPs. . . . Their obvious advantages in ease of use, performance, and costperformance will make them the clear winner over other alternatives.” I do have one minor criticism: it seems that the list of references is erroneous. For example, the reference LLG] appears before bi], and unreachable enmes are k e d , such as “T.