Distributed applications
A distributed application is an application that does not run on one single machine, but instead lets different parts of the program run on multiple computers that communicate with each other over a network. This might sound like the client-server solutions we talked about earlier, but here we don't have the distinct roles of a client and a server.
There could be several reasons to use this solution. One may be that what we are doing requires so much computing power that a single computer will not be enough. The idea is to use the computing power of many computers and distribute the calculations to all of them, letting each computer work on a small section of the problem and communicate the results to the other machines in the network. This will give us something of a supercomputer that will act as a very powerful single machine running a single application, when it is actually thousands of computers running small individual parts of the application...