• message queues. Distributed computing also refers to the use of distributed systems to solve computational problems. In distributed computing, a problem is...
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  • The fallacies of distributed computing are a set of assertions made by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems describing false assumptions that...
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  • The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is a software system developed in the early 1990s from the work of the Open Software Foundation (OSF), a consortium...
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  • In distributed computing, a stub is a program that acts as a temporary replacement for a remote service or object. It allows the client application to...
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  • of Distributed Computing (PODC) is an academic conference in the field of distributed computing organised annually by the Association for Computing Machinery...
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    volunteer computing projects; a type of distributed computing where volunteers donate computing time to specific causes. The donated computing power comes...
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    Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct...
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  • number of votes that a distributed transaction has to obtain in order to be allowed to perform an operation in a distributed system. A quorum-based technique...
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  • tasks. For certain applications, distributed or grid computing can be seen as a special type of parallel computing that relies on complete computers...
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    a network. Distributed computers are highly scalable. The terms "concurrent computing", "parallel computing", and "distributed computing" have a lot...
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