Definition:
- Two or more computers
- doing processing and storage and
- sharing data
Advantages:
- Overall system reliability
- Forces design modularity
- Faster, more consistent response time
- Reduced communication costs
- Easier to scale up or down
Disadvantages:
- More costly for hardware
- Lower hardware utilization rates
- Lack of backup hardware typically
- Unreliability of individual locations
- More IS knowledgeable people needed
- Harder to control
- More potential for security problems
Advantages and disadvantages are versus centralized processing.
- R. S. Kulzick 2/22/00 -