At 01:27 AM 4/30/01 +0100, Virginia Da Costa wrote the following:
>1. Can machine A, with a faster processor, usefully run a program hosted on
>machine B, which has a slow processor? Or vice versa? In other words,
>should one assume that the processing speed depends on the actual machine
>being used to run the program, irrespective of where the application is on
>the network?
If machine A is a server and has a server version of software installed,
then machine B can access and utilize that program. The common data would be
stored on the server (machine A) and local data would be stored on machine B.
In general, you can NOT execute programs across machines unless one is the
server, has a server version of software, and allows access from other
machines. Speed of processing is across the network so traffic and
congestion are the main limits to transaction processing speed, not the
speed of the CPUs.
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