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Distributed System

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What is distributed System? Internet is one of the distributed systems Distributed system is a collection of independent computers that work together as one computer. Distributed System consist of component that are autonomous.(act independently) However the autonomous component need to collaborate. The component don't have to homogeneous to communicate each others. The main purpose of the distributed system is to sharing resources for example like world wide web/internet is one of the successful distributed system which vast interconnected collection of computer network of many different types. There are several goals of distributed system: Transparency Openness Reliability Performance Scalability Transparency An important goal to hide the fact that all the process and resource are physically distributed across multiple computers but for users is like a single computer. The figure show the example of transparency of the system however it not necess...