Distributed Computing

Question 1

What is a distributed system?

Answer 1

A distributed system is a collection of entities, each of which is autonomous and asynchronous, which can communicate through an unreliable communication medium.

Question 2

What is the difference between distributed and parallel computing?

Answer 2

Distributed computing addresses computation distribution, while parallel computing focuses on tightly-coupled applications.

Question 3

What is distributed computing?

Answer 3

Computing in relation to where the computation physically resides. Distributed algorithms, for example, are executed on multiple geographically spread CPUs.