Title :
Network computers: the changing face of computing
Author_Institution :
Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China
Abstract :
Computer system architectures have always evolved over time, but we are currently witnessing an especially dramatic paradigm shift in computer system design. The Internet has shifted the distributed computing paradigm from the traditional closely coupled form to a loosely coupled one
Keywords :
Internet; computer architecture; distributed processing; network computers; workstation clusters; Internet; closely coupled form; cluster computing; computer system architecture evolution; computer system design; distributed computing paradigm; loosely coupled form; network computers; paradigm shift; Application software; Centralized control; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Internet; Logic; Network servers; Real time systems; Scalability;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.895097
