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Foil 73 Parallel Computing versus Distributed Computing

From Programming Paradigms A CRPC/MCNC Workshop -- April 10-13 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Parallel Computing
  • Communication must be high bandwidth and low latency
  • Low flexibility (and overhead) in messages
Distributed Computing
  • Communication can be high or low bandwidth
  • Latency typically high ---> can be very flexible messages involving fault tolerance, sophisticated routing, etc.
  • Parallel Computing should on technical grounds define standards as more restrictive (demanding)? However it is smallest field
  • World Wide Web revolutionizing both parallel and distributed approAches and standards

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