What are distributed computer systems and why is it relevant ?
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Is any kind of computing that is distributed over multiple computers. Could be a room full of them working on the same task in parallel, or could be a piece of software you download on your computer that does work and sends it to a shared project with millions of computers around the world also contributing (such as Folding@Home).
They’re relevant because there exist classes of problems and research that require so much computing power that splitting it into small tasks that every machine can perform is the best way. Protein folding is such a problem.
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