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Overview

In general, distributed computing is any computing that involves multiple computers remote from each other that each have a role in a computation problem or information processing. <P> In business enterprises, distributed computing generally has meant putting various steps in business processes at the most efficient places in a network of computers. In the typical transaction using the 3-tier model, user interface processing is done in the PC at the user's location, business processing is done in a remote computer, and database access and processing is done in another computer that provides centralized access for many business processes. Typically, this kind of distributed computing uses the client/server communications model. More recently, distributed computing is used to refer to any large collaboration in which many individual personal computer owners allow some of their computer's processing time to be put at the service of a large problem. The best-known example is the SETI@home project in which individual computer owners can volunteer some of their multitasking processing cycles (while concurrently still using their computer) to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project. This computing-intensive problem uses your computer (and thousands of others) to download and search radio telescope data.


Publications (39)

EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about Distributed Computing.

Item ID Title Resource Category Pub Date Views Rankingsort icon

CSD5612
Articles, Papers, and Reports
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
01/20/2009 11,979
 

ELI7028
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
08/20/2007 8,403
 
CSD5065
Mark A. Luker and Norma B. Holland
Articles, Papers, and Reports
EDUCAUSE
Publications
08/20/2007 3,992
 

ERB0622
Frederick H. Siff
Articles, Papers, and Reports
ECAR
10/23/2006 3,797
 
PUB2104
EDUCAUSE
Publications
01/01/2000 8,670
 
EDU0011
Ed Klonoski
Articles, Papers, and Reports
EDUCAUSE Annual
01/01/2000 5,734
 

ERM0150
Tracy Futhey
Articles, Papers, and Reports
EDUCAUSE Review
01/01/2001 4,658
 
CMR9816
CUMREC (Archives)
01/01/1998 4,817
 
CEM9645
Andrea M. Martin and Vicky Dean
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1996 5,757
 
CEM9912
EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1999 5,403
 
CMR9834
Kathy Gardner, Marisa Johnson
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CUMREC (Archives)
01/01/1998 5,018
 
CNC9600
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1996 4,936
 
CNC9746
Susan B. Borel, James R. Tompkins, and June S. Winckelmann
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1997 4,876
 
CSD3515
Eric Auchard
Articles, Papers, and Reports
Community Recommendation
01/01/2004 2,746
 
CEM9346
Bernbom, Cromwell
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1993 8,152
 
CEM9532
C. Shull, N. Arzt, D. Updegrove
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1995 6,115
 
CNC9741
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1997 4,760
 
CNC9763
John W. Smith
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1997 4,533
 
CEM9423
N. Armann, L. Conrad, D. Huish, B. Millard
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1994 5,615
 
CEM9628
Elazar Harel, Greg Partipilo
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1996 4,987
 
CMR9724
CUMREC (Archives)
01/01/1997 4,186
 
CNC9301
Armann, Conrad, Huish
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1993 5,682
 
CEM9142
Bernbom
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1991 8,743
 
CNC9434
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1994 5,811
 
CNC9442
Gargano
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1994 6,289
 

Presentations (8)

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Item ID Title Resource Category Pub Date Views Rankingsort icon
LIVE094
Malcolm B. Brown and Laurence F. Johnson
Presentations/Speeches
Web Seminars EDUCAUSE
02/18/2009 1,322
 
CMR0120
Jake Kupiec and Stephanie Mabee
Presentations/Speeches
CUMREC (Archives)
01/01/2001 5,146
 
EDU0273
Daniel J. Oberst and Donna E. Tatro
Presentations/Speeches
EDUCAUSE Annual
01/01/2002 5,301
 
ELI063002
George Siemens
Presentations/Speeches
ELI Meetings
01/01/2006 2,813
 
NCP0667
NERCOMP
03/22/2006 2,254
 
MAC0335
Melissa J. Mills and Adrienne Moore
Presentations/Speeches
Mid-Atlantic Regional
01/01/2003 4,964
 
MWR0680
Midwest Regional
03/14/2006 3,395
 
EDU03147
EDUCAUSE Annual
01/01/2003 4,420
 

Blogs (4)

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