Distributed computing
Distributed computing is the concurrent usage of more than one connected computer to solve a problem over a network connection. The computers that take part in distributed computing appear as single machines to their users.
Distributing computation across multiple computers is a great approach when these computers are observed to interact with each other over the distributed network to solve a bigger problem in reasonably less latency. In many respects, this sounds like a generalization of the concepts of parallel computing that we discussed in the previous section. The purpose of enabling distributed systems includes the ability to confront a problem that is either bigger or longer to process by an individual computer. ...
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