distributed application support
1Distributed computing — is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal …
2Distributed Interactive Simulation — (DIS) is an IEEE standard for conducting real time platform level wargaming across multiple host computers and is used worldwide, especially by military organizations but also by other agencies such as those involved in space exploration and… …
3Distributed GIS — concerns itself with GI Systems that do not have all of the system components in the same physical location. This could be the processing, the database, the rendering or the user interface. Examples of distributed systems are web based GIS,… …
4Distributed Component Object Model — (DCOM) is a proprietary Microsoft technology for communication among software components distributed across networked computers. DCOM, which originally was called Network OLE , extends Microsoft s COM, and provides the communication substrate… …
5Distributed Objects Everywhere — (DOE) was a long running Sun Microsystems project to build a distributed computing environment based on the CORBA system in the back end and OpenStep as the user interface. First started in 1990 and announced soon thereafter, it remained… …
6Application Enhancer — (APE) is a software program released by Unsanity for Apple s Mac OS X operating system. Application Enhancer provides a framework that allows third party developers to write haxies for OS X. It also provides a daemon to load haxies when certain… …
7Distributed operating system — A distributed operating system is the logical aggregation of operating system software over a collection of independent, networked, communicating, and spatially disseminated computational nodes.[1] Individual system nodes each hold a discrete… …
8Distributed social network — A distributed social network is an Internet social network service that is decentralized and distributed across different providers. The emphasis of the distribution is on portabilitya[›], interoperability and federation capability. It contrasts… …
9Distributed element filter — Figure 1. A circuit featuring many of the f …
10Distributed hash table — A distributed hash table (DHT) is a class of a decentralized distributed system that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table; (key, value) pairs are stored in a DHT, and any participating node can efficiently retrieve the value… …
