Distributed Systems

When we connect several computers in a network to jointly process large amounts of data, such a computing system is commonly referred to as a “distributed system”. From a technical standpoint the key difference between a distributed system and the more familiar parallel system (e.g., our desktop computer with its multi core CPU) is that in distributed systems the different components do not share the same memory (and storage). Figure 6.1 illustrates this point.

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Ulrich Matter (2023). "Distributed Systems". Chapman & Hall/CRC eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003378822-6