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Foil 14 Some Terminology - 2

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part II:The Practical Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


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.



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