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