The tech hotlist: grid computing and P2P

The article is a review of the book: From P2P to Web Services and Grids: Peers in a Client Server World by I.J. Taylor and published by Springer, 2004. The book provides a comprehensive, updated review of the new and improved distributed computing technology formed by the union of computing and communications. The author wrote the book primarily for university students. It's written like a textbook, and very well, too. You need a computing foundation and some familiarity with grid computing to grasp all the concepts. The book does, however, give a good overview of the technology before delving too deeply into the details. Each chapter builds the technical knowhow needed for the next one.