In the distributed computing model, problems are solved by a distributed interconnected set of processors.

The client / server model is a computing model that acts as a distributed application which partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients.

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems.

Distributed computing also refers to the use of distributed systems to solve computational problems.

In distributed computing, a problem is divided into many tasks, each of which is solved by one or more computers.

The terms " concurrent computing ", " parallel computing ", and " distributed computing " have a lot of overlap, and no clear distinction exists between them.

Parallel computing may be seen as a particular tightly coupled form of distributed computing, and distributed computing may be seen as a loosely coupled form of parallel computing.

* In distributed computing, each processor has its own private memory ( distributed memory ).

The study of distributed computing became its own branch of computer science in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

There are two main reasons for using distributed systems and distributed computing.

Examples of distributed systems and applications of distributed computing include the following:

** Scientific computing, including cluster computing and grid computing and various volunteer computing projects ; see the list of distributed computing projects.

Founded in 1989 by eleven companies ( including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, American Airlines and Data General ), OMG's initial focus was to create a heterogeneous distributed object standard.

* Seeks, a free distributed search engine ( licensed under Affero General Public License ).

Despite its name, this software is not distributed under the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), opting for its own more restrictive open source license instead.

For these now former Indian lands, the General Land Office distributed the sales funds to the various tribal entities, according to previously negotiated terms.

The paper was formerly published by Associated Newspapers Ltd., a division of Daily Mail and General Trust, which also published the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, and Metro, a free morning paper distributed Monday through Friday at London stations.

In work overseen by the Inspector General of Quarries, Charles-Axel Guillaumot, the bones were deposited in a wide well dug in land bought from a property, " La maison de la Tombe Issoire " ( near a house with the same name ), and distributed throughout the underground caverns by workers below.

It is produced under the GNU General Public License ( GPL ) and distributed on the Sandia National Laboratories website as well as SourceForge.

Exim is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.

* Breakfast cereals ( some distributed by Cereal Partners Worldwide, the joint venture with General Mills )

In 1996, Saturn Dealerships distributed the electric General Motors EV1, the first car released under the GM marque.

Beginning in 1929, General Mills products contained box top coupons, known as Betty Crocker coupons, with varying point values, which were redeemable for discounts on a variety of housewares products featured in the widely distributed Betty Crocker catalog.

Drupal () is a free and open-source content management system ( CMS ) and content management framework ( CMF ) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

General Jeffrey Amherst, decided to cut back on the provisions customarily distributed to the Indians from the various forts, which he considered to be bribes.

In contrast with the DivX codec, which is proprietary software developed by DivX, Inc., Xvid is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Since the 1960s, railroad distributed power technology has been dominated by one company, Harris Controls ( originally Harris Corporation — Controls and Composition Division, later purchased by General Electric, and now known as GE Transportation Systems Global Signalling ), who have manufactured and marketed a patented radio-control system known as Locotrol that is the predominant ( perhaps only?

In early May 1918 US Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory condemned The Finished Mystery as " one of the most dangerous examples of ... propaganda ... a work written in extremely religious language and distributed in enormous numbers ".

* General understanding of distributed computing architectures ( for example, Client / Server, Internet / Intranet, Enterprise )

Miranda is free software distributed under GNU General Public License.

During the General Assembly 6, 000 copies of a two-hour DVD outlining the perceived dangers of the Emergent Church were distributed free to delegates and visitors.

In 1918, he drained swamps, ordered fumigation and distributed free medicine to combat a yellow fever epidemic, and won the praise of Major General William C. Gorgas, who had done the same in Panama.

Website Meta Language is a free and extensible web designer's off-line HTML generation toolkit for Unix, distributed under the GNU General Public License ( GPL v2 ).

It is produced by Heroine Virtual, and is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Mailman is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The interpreter is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Sleepycat distributed Berkeley DB under a proprietary software license, that included standard commercial features, and simultaneously under the newly-created Sleepycat License, which allows Open Source use and distribution of Berkeley DB with a copyleft redistribution condition similar to the GNU General Public License.

In distributed computing, SSLIOP is Internet Inter-ORB Protocol ( IIOP ) over Secure Sockets Layer ( SSL ), providing confidentiality and authentication.

In distributed computing, SECIOP ( SECure Inter-ORB Protocol ) is a protocol for secure inter-ORB communication.

The availability of high-speed Internet Protocol networks has made the British film industry capable of working closely with U. S. studios as part of globally distributed productions.

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ( LDAP ; ) is an application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol ( IP ) network.

Labels are distributed between LERs and LSRs using the Label Distribution Protocol ( LDP ).

It is a distributed, open architecture protocol based on established standards such as the Internet Protocol Suite ( TCP / IP ), HTTP, XML, and SOAP.

Ultrix-32 supported SCSI disks and tapes and also proprietary Digital Storage Systems Interconnect and CI peripherals employing DEC's Mass Storage Control Protocol, although lacking the OpenVMS distributed lock manager it did not support concurrent access from multiple Ultrix systems.

A distributed variant of the Bellman – Ford algorithm is used in distance-vector routing protocols, for example the Routing Information Protocol ( RIP ).

* Optimistic Distributed Protocol, a two phase wait commit protocol in real-time applications involving distributed databases.

Lorimar Motion Pictures also distributed The Fourth Protocol and Siesta-neither of them produced by the company-in North America.

The most common distributed algorithm is the Spanning Tree Protocol, used by OSI link layer devices to create a spanning tree using the existing links as the source graph in order to avoid broadcast storms.

In distributed computing, CSIv2 ( Common Secure Interoperability Protocol Version 2 ) is a protocol implementing security features for inter-ORB communication.

9P ( or the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol or Styx ) is a network protocol developed for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating system as the means of connecting the components of a Plan 9 system.

Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP ( MBGP ), sometimes referred to as Multiprotocol BGP or Multicast BGP and defined in IETF RFC 4760, is an extension to Border Gateway Protocol that allows different types of addresses ( known as address families ) to be distributed in parallel.

Many service providers have Terms of Service that do not allow certain materials to be uploaded or distributed, or the service to be used in a particular way, and may suspend a hosting account, after a few complaints, to minimize the risk of their IP subnet being blocked by anti-spam filters using Internet Protocol ( IP ) based filtering.