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All aspects of distributed computing including client-server systems, peer to peer computing and file servers are included in this category

Subcategories

• Client-server systems - a distributed application that partitions tasks between the providers of a service, or servers, and requesters, or clients
• Collaborative work - technologies that facilitate collaboration and connection between work teams, such as wikis
• Database machines - or back end processor, either a computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database
• Diffserv networks - or differentiated service networks, a computer networking architecture that specifies a scalable mechanism for classifying and managing network traffic on modern IP networks
• Distributed databases - a database in which storage devices are not all attached to a common CPU
• Distributed information systems - computers or systems that distribute information and computing across multiple platforms
• File servers - a computer attached to a network whose purpose is providing shared disk access
• Internet - a global system of interconnected computer networks that use Standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)
• Metacomputing - all computing used for the research and development and application of different kinds of computing
• Peer to peer computing - or P2P, a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers