Database Systems: Concepts, Design and Applications

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1.	________ divides larger tasks into many smaller tasks, and executes the smaller tasks concurrently on several communication nodes.
2.	Coordination of concurrent tasks is called ________.
3.	________ is the ability of a system N times larger to perform a task N times larger in the same time period as the original system.
4.	The architecture having multiple CPUs working in parallel and physically located in a close environment in the same building and communicating at very high speed is called ________.
5.	In a shared-memory architecture, communication between CPUs is extremely ________.
6.	In a shared-memory architecture, the communication overheads are ________.
7.	In a shared-disk architecture, the scalability of the system is ...