"distributed computing" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} distributed computing (uncountable)
  1. The process of aggregating the power of several computers to collaboratively run a single computational task in a transparent and coherent way. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-distributed_computing-en-noun-s54EMVgX Disambiguation of Computing: 47 53
  2. The use of the idle time of large numbers of networked computers to work on projects too large for any single group. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-distributed_computing-en-noun-UA3MXDQR Disambiguation of Computing: 47 53 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 84 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 14 86

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