distributed programming

noun

UK /dɪˈstrɪbjuːtɪd ˈprəʊɡræmɪŋ/

US /dɪˈstrɪbjətɪd ˈproʊɡræmɪŋ/

Writing computer programs that run on many computers working together.

The team used distributed programming to split the big job across many machines.

SYNONYMS

parallel programming cluster computing distributed computing concurrent programming

RELATED WORDS

networking cloud computing scalability message passing fault tolerance

OTHER MEANINGS

2. A style of coding where parts of a program talk to each other over a network.

Distributed programming helps services on different servers share data.

3. Building software that keeps working even when some computers fail.

With distributed programming, the system kept running after one node crashed.

4. Splitting a large task among many computers to finish it faster.

They used distributed programming to process millions of records overnight.