What is Distributed Computing?

Distributed computing is a computing method, as opposed to centralized computing.

Distributed Computing

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For the user side, before joining any project, you must ensure that you can trust the developer of the project, which mainly involves two aspects:

Private data on distributed computing computers

The calculation program you downloaded from the project party runs on this machine and can access the network. Therefore, only a reliable project party can guarantee that the private data on your computer will not be maliciously removed, modified, etc.

Life of distributed computing personal computers

Although the calculation program of distributed computing generally runs at the lowest priority, it will not affect your daily use. However, when the calculation program is running at full load, it will still cause certain pressure on the computer's components. To learn more, please see distributed Calculate the impact on computer software and hardware.

For the project party, the volunteers participating in distributed computing are not the project party s own people, and they are not all trusted. Therefore, a certain redundant computer system must be introduced to prevent calculation errors and malicious cheating.