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Distributed computing deals with hardware and software systems containing more than one processing element or storage element, concurrent processes, or multiple programs, running under a loosely or tightly controlled regime.

In distributed computing a program is split up into parts that run simultaneously on multiple computers communicating over a network. Distributed computing is a form of parallel computing, but parallel computing is most commonly used to describe program parts running simultaneously on multiple processors in the same computer. Both types of processing require dividing a program into parts that can run simultaneously, but distributed programs often must deal with heterogeneous environments, network links of varying latencies, and unpredictable failures in the network or the computers.

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• Distributed computing gets a corporate twist

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-270988.html
  "Grid" technology has largely been an academic phenomenon, but IBM gives the idea a corporate twist with its Grid Computing Initiative. [CNet News]

• Distributed Computing Primer

  http://www.bacchae.co.uk/docs/dist.html
  Introduction to organising a distributed computing project.

• Is Distributed Computing a Crime?

  http://www.securityfocus.com/news/300
  Computer network administrator faces multiple felony charges and years in prison for allegedly installing Distributed.net clients without permission. [SecurityFocus]

• Jeff Sutherland's Object Technology Site

  http://jeffsutherland.com/
  Breaking news on distributed computing, object technology, components, and business objects.

• Open Grid Forum (OGF)

  http://www.ogf.org/
  A community-initiated forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies.

• The DC Zone

  http://thedczone.com/
  A growing distributed computing community, currently focused on Folding@Home, Find-a-Drug, Grid.org, World Community Grid, and DIMES, though open to other projects.

• The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS)

  http://www.cs.vu.nl/~bal/das.html
  An experimental wide-area distributed computing cluster used for parallel computing research at five Dutch universities.

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