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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
distributed computing en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The process of aggregating the power of several computers to collaboratively run a single computational task in a transparent and coherent way.
SETI is a well-known example of distributed computing, with over five million computer users involved.
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(uncountable) The use of the idle time of large numbers of networked computers to work on projects too large for any single group.