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What is Distributed Computing?

This process is when multiple software compoents running on multiple computers all act as a single system. How far the computers are away from each other physically does not matter. They can be on the same Lan or very far apart but connected on a Wan. The utimate goal is to make it work as a single system. This system has the ability to scale by adding or subtracting computers. It also has redundancy by all of the computers running the same software so if one of the computers stops working the software will continue to run uninterrupted.

This information was found at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSAL2T_8.2.0/com.ibm.cics.tx.doc/concepts/c_wht_is_distd_comptg.html