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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.


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Title Blogger Posted Views
Tune In February 18: The 2009 Horizon Report Peggy Kurkowski, EDUCAUSE 02/10/2009 1,073
New Mailing List on Distributed/Federated Digital Preservation Strategies Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University 11/16/2007 390
CAMP Proceedings Now Online: Building a Distributed Access Management Infrastructure Colleen Luckett, EDUCAUSE 11/29/2006 3,482
NSF Middleware 9th Release Now Available Elisa Coghlan, University of Washington 05/04/2006 3,831
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