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17. What is a Distributed System?
·Distributed system-requires autonomous computers to be interconnected through a network.
·Each computer has to be equipped with distributed operating system software, which enables the
computers to coordinate activities and to share resources in a controlled way.
·We also requiretransparencyof distribution for the computer users.
They shall not have to be aware of the fact that the system is distributed.
Distributed System Characteristics
·Multiple autonomous components
·Components are not shared by all users
·Resources may not be accessible
·Software runs in concurrent processes on different processors
·Multiple Points of control
·Multiple Points of failure
·Certain requirements are common to many distributed systems
Resource Sharing
Openness
Concurrency
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