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.

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