Compêndio de computação distribuída.

Abstract

Distributed Computing is a reality nowadays. The main users of Information Technology are moving from computing paradigms based on a central processor and its dependent devices, towards new paradigms which distribute the presentation, the data, and the processing tasks associated with one application across many computers connected to a network. Distributed Computing impacts the way we use computers to support business operations. Many organizations are building and applying distributed applications, in order to obtain greater openness, funcionality, and user productivity. Nevertheless, those organizations are also facing new technical, economics and business characteristics as they move towards new paradigms adopted by the modern business environments. As more and more corporate applications are built upon distributed architectures, the impact will be even greater. This thesis provides information that may help computer professionals harness the transition of a centralized computing model to a distributed computing one.