• The Network Computing System (NCS) was an implementation of the Network Computing Architecture (NCA). It was created at Apollo Computer in the 1980s....
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  • files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed. NFS, like many other protocols, builds on the Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call...
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  • Distributed systems are groups of networked computers which share a common goal for their work. The terms "concurrent computing", "parallel computing", and...
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    Edge computing is a distributed computing model that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data. More broadly, it refers to any...
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    of cluster computing is cloud computing. The components of a cluster are usually connected to each other through fast local area networks, with each node...
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  • Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly...
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  • Network Computing Architecture may refer to: Network Computing Architecture, protocol created by Apollo Computer in their Network Computing System Network...
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  • tools. At the time, network computing was quite popular, and many of the companies involved were working on similar RPC-based systems. By integrating security...
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  • Autonomic computing (AC) is distributed computing resources with self-managing characteristics, adapting to unpredictable changes while hiding intrinsic...
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  • Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system with...
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  • wish to access a limited resource). Computing resources are used in cloud computing to provide services through networks. Interrupt request (IRQ) lines Direct...
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    Network Computing Devices (NCD) was a company founded in 1987 to produce a new class of products now known as a thin client. It was founded in Mountain...
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  • In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on configurable security...
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    Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service...
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    of the analytical engine's computing unit (the mill) in 1888. He gave a successful demonstration of its use in computing tables in 1906. In his work...
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  • used UUIDs in the Network Computing System (NCS). Later, the Open Software Foundation (OSF) used UUIDs for their Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)...
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  • centralized computing exists when the majority of functions are carried out or obtained from a remote centralized location. Decentralized computing is a trend...
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    Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally...
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    Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic...
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  • quantum systems. Networked quantum computing or distributed quantum computing works by linking multiple quantum processors through a quantum network by sending...
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    Airplane mode Firewall (computing) Near sound data transfer NIPRNet SIPRNet Sneakernet Tempest (codename) Unidirectional network Van Eck phreaking "What...
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  • Reservoir computing is a framework for computation derived from recurrent neural network theory that maps input signals into higher dimensional computational...
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  • multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking (SDN) for large datacenter, cloud computing, high-performance computing, and high-frequency...
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  • Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed concurrently—during overlapping time periods—instead of sequentially—with...
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    implements system logging facility, and sshd is a daemon that serves incoming SSH connections. Even though the concept can apply to many computing systems, the...
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    Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced /bɔɪŋk/ –rhymes with "oink") is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed...
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  • and add compute, memory, networking, and storage resources to a given node or set of nodes that make up a larger computing, distributed computing, or grid...
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  • In computing, a naming scheme is a system for assigning and managing names of objects connected into computer networks. It typically consists of a namespace...
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    alternatively, large computing clusters may be composed of many relatively simple, replaceable server components. The use of the word server in computing comes from...
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    Resilient Overlay Networks, Association for Computing Machinery, archived from the original on 2011-11-24, retrieved 2011-11-12 "End System Multicast". project...
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