what is a distributed computing and which is the best operating system for it ?
2006-11-12 02:38:51 · 3 answers · asked by Gaurav G 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Distributed computing is the process of aggregating the power of several computing entities to collaboratively run a single computational task in a transparent and coherent way, so that they appear as a single, centralized system.
you don't know where processing occurs....
EX: INTERNET
2006-11-12 02:45:06 · answer #1 · answered by chayablossom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Distributed computing is a programming paradigm focusing on designing distributed, open, scalable, transparent, fault tolerant systems. This paradigm is a natural result of the use of computers to form networks.
Distributed computing is decentralised and parallel computing, using two or more computers communicating over a network to accomplish a common objective or task. The types of hardware, programming languages, operating systems and other resources may vary drastically. It is similar to computer clustering with the main difference being a wide geographic dispersion of the resources.
An example of a distributed system is the World Wide Web. As you are reading a web page, you are actually using the distributed system that comprises the site. As you are browsing the web, your web browser running on your own computer communicates with different web servers that provide web pages. Possibly, your browser uses a proxy server to access the web contents stored on web servers faster and more securely. To find these servers, it also uses the distributed domain name system. Your web browser communicates with all of these servers over the Internet, via a system of routers which are themselves part of a large distributed system.
Any operating system will work..
2006-11-12 03:02:52 · answer #2 · answered by ladeehwk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Distributed computing is a method, where the power many connected computers are utilised in an effective way (both time and space), to do a specified job (program). The given job is split into manageable parts and distributed to computers which has resource and time for execution. This way the computations are done in parallel in time and space and the results are gathered and shown at output. Grid computing is now becoming a specialised field in this method, where the operations are optimised taking into account the diversity of the capabilities of the computer systems themselves.
2016-05-22 07:01:37 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋