books about: clusters     books:       Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters Handbook (Osborne Oracle Press)19 reviews K Gopalakrishnan McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2006 Gopalakrishnan does it again.. RAC Handbook is an excellent RAC book for new and experienced DBAs. The book is not one of the several 600 page RAC books that contain pages of not-so valuable information. The RAC Handbook is around 400 pages and it is packed with excellent detail on how to install RAC and troubleshoot common performance issues. The author of this book, K Gopalakrishnan is also the author of "Oracle Wait ...             Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 28 Nations, Clusters of Nations, and Continents4 reviews Martin J. Gannon Sage Publications, Inc, 2003 A practical approach to other cultures This book uses metaphors as tools to engage with other cultures. And very useful tools they are, indeed. I have been using this book with students for several years now, and the biggest initial obstacle is that people mistake the metaphors for stereotypes. Once this obstacle is overcome, a very creative and productive examination of the reality of another culture can occur.             Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB (Programming)6 reviews James Murty O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008 A good overview This is a good overview of the suite of services that comprise Amazon Web Services (AWS), I'd have given it a 3.5 star rating if I could. It talks about all of them, but it spends the bulk of its time, very reasonably, discussing S3 (the persistent storage system) and EC2 (the compute cloud - basically Amazon's Rackspace in the clouds) - each getting about 100 pages devoted to it. As others ...             Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)5 reviews Peter Coles Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 An excellent introduction to cosmology First, be warned that Amazon has mixed up two very different books here. Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction is the 139-page paperback I am reviewing. The editorial review refers to Cosmology: The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Structures, a 520-page hardcover. At the time of writing this review, Amazon have the two books confused and you will find the same editorial and user reviews under ...             Microsoft ® Office 2007 Business Intelligence7 reviews Doug Harts McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2007 Good Concise Review This book provided a great, easy to understand review of the features of Office 2007. Touched upon pivot tables, performance point, dashboards and scorecards. Plenty of examples were provided. This will definitely help me with implementing executive dashboards at my company.             The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability (The ...3 reviews Terracotta, Inc. Apress, 2008 A Must have book to buy to understanding Terracotta Best Practices A must have book to buy to understanding Terracotta Best Practices,I personally was an early adopter and has had much success, Terracotta has proven over the years to help ease the development of HA systems, that scale from the start...this book has real world examples (not just Hello Worlds! Programs) ..to build and deploy systems backed by Terracotta for your enterprise.             Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and Free Software10 reviews Karl Kopper No Starch Press, 2005 very well conceived and written book! When you find something you really like you want to have/know more of it, not really being important if it is food, an idea or a piece of art. And part of liking something is getting greedy+opinionated+political about it. One little thing that bothered me about this book was the constant changed of fonts from like 12 points to 8 and then 6 with a gray background. Usability anyone? But this is ...             Galactic Dynamics: (Second Edition) (Princeton Series in Astrophysics)5 reviews James Binney, Scott Tremaine Princeton University Press, 2008 The "Bible" of Galactic Dynamics This book is a very well-known and widely used reference for students in extragalactic astrophysics and stellar dynamics. A solution manual for the problems would be highly welcomed.             The Cluster Grouping Handbook: How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All1 review Susan Winebrenner, Dina, Ph.d. Brulles Free Spirit Publishing, 2008 Should be considered by all educational professionals and community library education collections Students who are not challenged become bored and uninterested in the subject they're studying - they need to be challenged in some way. "The Cluster Grouping Handbook: How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All" is a deftly compiled guide to doing just that. Seeking to improve all student's improvements but focusing on those who are especially gifted, and the challenges that ...             The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies and Cosmology Jeffrey O. Bennett, Megan Donahue, ... Addison Wesley, 2008             Oracle 10g Grid & Real Application Clusters: Oracle 10g Grid Computing with RAC (Oracle In-Focus series)16 reviews Mike Ault, Madhu Tumma Rampant Techpress, 2004 Best and first book on RAC!!! I own all of the books on Oracle Real Application clusters which is one of the most challenging areas within Oracle database technology. What I like about this book is that it covers a broad area of technology including hardware, software and design components on how to implement a RAC cluster. The author is a known expert in the Oracle field and his brilliant insights shows in this wonderful ...             High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Concepts, Design, Implementation2 reviews Klaus Schmidt Springer, 2006 Conceptually very good, Methodology too This is my first book about this matter. Although I have some experience implementing solution with HA/DR requirements, this book was very clarifier. Topics are conceptually clear and also this proposes a good methodology to face HA/DR requirements. You will get some technical details about components that allow implement HA/DR, however it is not in deep. Don't think you will get a comercial ...             Galaxies and How to Observe Them (Astronomers' Observing Guides)3 reviews Wolfgang Steinicke, Richard Jakiel Springer, 2006 most up-to-date, clearly structured reference book on galaxy observing Wolfgang Steinicke was the leading author of the german "Praxishandbuch Deep Sky"(Kosmos 2004), which I like very much. So I started reading his new book on Galaxies with high expectations...and I was not disappointed : I believe this is the most up-to-date, clearly structured reference book on galaxy observing - satisfying a very broad range of interests. In three major sections, the authors ...             Multivariate Statistics for Wildlife and Ecology Research2 reviews Kevin McGarigal, Sam Cushman, ... Springer, 2002 grad students I am an ecology grad student and I have returned to this text again and again.             Data Clustering: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability) Guojun Gan, Chaoqun Ma, ... SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2007 Cluster analysis is an unsupervised process that divides a set of objects into homogeneous groups. This book starts with basic information on cluster analysis, including the classification of data and the corresponding similarity measures, followed by the presentation of over 50 clustering algorithms in groups according to some specific baseline methodologies such as hierarchical, center-based, and search-based methods. As a result, readers and ...             Cluster Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)3 reviews Mark S. Aldenderfer, Roger K. Blashfield Sage Publications, Inc, 1984 Excellent primer on Cluster Analysis I have become a big fan of this little green book series. I belong to a very quantitatively oriented in-house think tank of a major West Coast financial service institution. As a very regular MBA, I often wonder what I am doing in such a group. These little green books have bailed me out several times and provided me the understanding on various esoteric advanced statistical methods. Thanks ...             High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI (Nutshell Handbooks)2 reviews Joseph Sloan O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 Cheap open source The free open source nature of Linux has driven its growth in general purpose client and server side usages. Here, Sloan takes linux into the rarefied context of high performance computing. Atop linux, he explains the merits of open source packages like Oscar and Rocks, to run your cluster. The basic motivation for him describing all this is the relatively low cost of using the machines. This can ...             Oracle 10g RAC Grid, Services & Clustering9 reviews Murali Vallath Digital Press, 2006 Comprehensive coverage on the topics I found the book extremely useful and very well written on RAC and Clustering. It is a great book for all who want to work as RAC DBA, it should be of immense value to both novice and experienced DBAs. All topics including performance tuning, cache fusion, storage management and services are presented extremely well. Murali is almost an authority on the subject. The appendix is awesome and makes ...             Galaxy Formation (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)2 reviews Malcolm S. Longair Springer, 2008 Best single volume text for galaxy formation and the formation of structure This is an oustanding text on the physics of the formation of structure in the Universe. It is written at the level of a beginning graduate student in physics or astronomy, and will provide sufficient background for the student to begin serious research in this area. The text is well written and the topics well chosen. It was written in 1998, so it is already a bit dated (it obviously contains ...             Cluster Analysis for Researchers5 reviews Charles Romesburg Lulu.com, 2004 An excellent introduction to cluster analysis I first ran across Romesburg's "Cluster Analysis for Researchers" when I was designing my dissertation. Unlike most books on multivariate statistics, this volumee spoke to me in a language I could understand. The author assumes no previous knowledge of the topic, and does a fine job of providing the reader with a framework. Examples are clear and well chosen. 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