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Foil 11 What are Parallel and Distributed Computing?

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox, (Some Culler, Koelbel material)
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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