Some Terminology - 1
Some Terminology - 1
Bandwidth - The communications capacity (measured in bits per
second) of a transmission line or of a specific path through the
network.
Clustered Computing - An environment consisting of many
workstations connected together by a local area network and can
be generalised to a heterogeneous collection of machines with
arbitrary architecture and interconnect.
High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) - The use of
distributed networked computers to achieve high performance on a
single problem, i.e., the computers are co-ordinated and
synchronised to achieve a common goal.