分布式系统

Lamport’s “Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System” (1978) 

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs230/reading/time.pdf

 

 

在Lamport’s “Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System” (1978) 这篇论文中对分布式系统的定义：

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A distributed system is a set of distinct and “spatially separated” processes that communicate by sending messages to each other.

 

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A system is distributed if the time it takes to send a message from one process to another is significant compared to the time interval between events in a single process. Why is this distinction important?