Conclusion. Server computers are still needed to distribute the pieces of data and collect the results from participating clients on the grid. Cloud offers more services than grid computing.

When a client side device, suck as a PC, smartphone or tablet, can handle part of the work, that’s client-server distributed computing. A 3-tier architecture has a middle tier involved, as with many ...

Cloud computing is an approach to client-server in which the "server" is a dynamically scalable network of loosely coupled heterogeneous nodes that are owned by a single institution and that tends ...

eWEEK 30: Client/server applications were heavily promoted in the 1990s as an effective way to harness the power of PCs connected to corporate networks. But the model just wasn’t scalable.

The difference between new and not-so-new technology has a way of revealing what is elastic and dynamic compared to what is rigid and static. It’s not a measure of which technology is considered ...

Understanding how cloud computing differs from, say, virtualization comes down to understanding it as a model for how to use your IT technology, not as a technology in and of itself. Cloud is an ...

The two basic LAN models are client-server and peer-to-peer. In a peer-to-peer network, all computers on the network share each other's resources, including disk storage and attached printers.

Kevin Macwan is a Software Development Manager for Amazon, with 9+ years of experience in building distributed cloud platform services. Serverless architecture is no longer the future of computing ...