some on-line references:
Also look for CORBA and JavaSpaces documents on-line
Distributed Systems Overview
Plan 9 homepage
Clusters
Distributed Communication
Message Passing Libraries
RPC
Distributed Shared Memory
Distributed Data Structures/Objects
Network RAM
Event Ordering and Distributed State
Replication and Fault Tolerance and Recovery
Distributed Coordination
Naming in Distributed Systems
Peer-to-Peer Systems
Parallel Algorithms for Regular Architectures by
Russ Miller Quentin F. Stout, MIT Press, 1996.
Does Systems Research Measure Up?
Small, C., Ghosh, N., Saleeb, H., Seltzer, M., Smith, K.,
Harvard University Computer Science Technical Report
TR-16-97, November 1997.
Supercomputers
Misc.