An important goal of a distributed system is to hide the fact that its processes and resources are physically distributed across multiple computers, possibly separated by large distances.

Distributed computing deals with all forms of computing, information access, and information exchange across multiple processing platforms connected by computer networks.

Distributed computation can refer to a wide variety of system, ranging from commodity cluster computing to computing in a data network; these systems all share the additional challenge of inter-processor …

How do we talk about a distributed execution? Can we draw global conclusions from local information? Can we coordinate operations without relying on synchrony? For the problems we know how to …

Distributed systems build upon that facility, and instead focus on how several nodes should coordinate in order to achieve some shared task. The design of distributed algorithms is about deciding what …

The number of distributed applications is vast, ranging from simple embedded control systems to large complex multi-language generic information processing platforms.

An important problem in distributed computing is to provide a user with a nondistributed view of a distributed system—for example, to implement a distributed file system that allows the client …