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Foil 40 Parallel Computing versus Distributed Computing

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Parallel Computing
2 Communication must be high bandwidth and low latency.
3 Low flexibility (and overhead) in messages (point-to-point).
4 Distributed Computing
5 Communication can be high or low bandwidth.
6 Latency typically high ---> can be very flexible messages involving fault tolerance, sophisticated routing, etc.
7 Parallel Computing should on technical grounds define standards as more restrictive (demanding)? However it is smallest field.
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