Some Terminology - 2

Distributed Computing Environment - The OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is a comprehensive, integrated set of services that supports the development, use and maintenance of distributed applications. It provides a set of services, anywhere in the network, enabling applications to use a heterogeneous network of computers.

Fault Tolerance - In this context, the guarantee that a job will complete after a system crash or network failure.

Heterogeneous - Containing components of more than one kind. A heterogeneous architecture may be one in which some components are processors, and others memories, or it may be one that uses different types of processor together.