Question

Identify some distributed application in the scientific and commercial application areas. For each application, determine which of the motivating factors are important for building the application over a distributed system

Answer 1

Answer:

Comparisons: 1. Load balancing - distribute processes across the network to even the workload 2. Computation speedup - subprocesses can run concurrently on different sites 3. Hardware preference - process execution may require specialized processor 4. Software preference - required software may be available at only a particular site 5. Data access - run process...