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Distributed Computing - 50 Resources

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 (38)

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 IDsort icon Title Resource Category Pub Date Views Ranking
CEM9142
Bernbom
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1991 8,743
 
CEM9243
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1992 5,424
 
CEM9346
Bernbom, Cromwell
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1993 8,156
 
CEM9349
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1993 5,104
 
CEM941B
M. Solomon
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1994 5,243
 
CEM9423
N. Armann, L. Conrad, D. Huish, B. Millard
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1994 5,619
 
CEM9427
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1994 5,067
 
CEM9440
M. Solomon
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1994 5,462
 
CEM9448
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1994 5,032
 
CEM9532
C. Shull, N. Arzt, D. Updegrove
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1995 6,116
 
CEM9628
Elazar Harel, Greg Partipilo
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1996 4,988
 
CEM9645
Andrea M. Martin and Vicky Dean
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1996 5,758
 
CEM9912
EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE/EFFECT (Archives)
01/01/1999 5,404
 
CMR9724
CUMREC (Archives)
01/01/1997 4,187
 
CMR9816
CUMREC (Archives)
01/01/1998 4,817
 
CMR9834
Kathy Gardner, Marisa Johnson
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CUMREC (Archives)
01/01/1998 5,018
 
CNC9218
Conrad, Rome, Wasileski
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1992 5,371
 
CNC9222
Stone
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1992 5,255
 
CNC9246
Balkan, McLaughlin, Howard
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1992 6,073
 
CNC9301
Armann, Conrad, Huish
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1993 5,683
 
CNC9302
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1993 5,624
 
CNC9308
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1993 5,650
 
CNC9349
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1993 5,721
 
CNC9351
Bouchard, Leibu, Manseau
Articles, Papers, and Reports
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1993 5,907
 
CNC9434
CAUSE (Archives)
01/01/1994 5,811
 

Presentations (8)

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Item IDsort icon Title Resource Category Pub Date Views Ranking
CMR0120
Jake Kupiec and Stephanie Mabee
Presentations/Speeches
CUMREC (Archives)
01/01/2001 5,150
 
EDU0273
Daniel J. Oberst and Donna E. Tatro
Presentations/Speeches
EDUCAUSE Annual
01/01/2002 5,301
 
EDU03147
EDUCAUSE Annual
01/01/2003 4,420
 
ELI063002
George Siemens
Presentations/Speeches
ELI Meetings
01/01/2006 2,816
 
LIVE094
Malcolm B. Brown and Laurence F. Johnson
Presentations/Speeches
Web Seminars EDUCAUSE
02/18/2009 1,336
 
MAC0335
Melissa J. Mills and Adrienne Moore
Presentations/Speeches
Mid-Atlantic Regional
01/01/2003 4,967
 
MWR0680
Midwest Regional
03/14/2006 3,422
 
NCP0667
NERCOMP
03/22/2006 2,256
 

Blogs (4)

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