Hwang K., Fox G., Dongarra J. Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things

Morgan Kaufmann, 2012. – 671 p. – ISBN: 978-0-12-385880-1.
Distributed and Cloud Computing, named a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice publication, explains how to create high-performance, scalable, reliable systems, exposing the design principles, architecture, and innovative applications of parallel, distributed, and cloud computing systems.
Starting with an overview of modern distributed models, the book provides comprehensive coverage of distributed and cloud computing, including:
Facilitating management, debugging, migration, and disaster recovery through virtualization
Clustered systems for research or ecommerce applications
Designing systems as web services
Social networking systems using peer-to-peer computing
Principles of cloud computing using examples from open-source and commercial applications.Systems Modeling, Clustering, and Virtualization
Distributed System Models and Enabling Technologies
Computer Clusters for Scalable Parallel Computing
Virtual Machines and Virtualization of Clusters and Data Centers.
Computing Clouds, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Programming
Cloud Platform Architecture over Virtualized Data Centers
Service-Oriented Architectures for Distributed Computing
Cloud Programming and Software Environments
Grids, P2P, and the Future Internet
Grid Computing Systems and Resource Management
Peer-to-Peer Computing and Overlay Networks
Ubiquitous Clouds and the Internet of Things