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Foil 9 What are Parallel and Distributed Computing?

From Master Foilset for CPS615 Introduction -- Material from Culler and Koelbel Computational Science for Simulations -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
It is multiple processes running on multiple computers which are coordinated to solve a single problem!
Distributed Computing can be defined in same way
Parallel computing has tight coordination (implying low latency and high bandwidth communication)
Distributed computing has looser constraints between component processes

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