Thursday, June 18, 2009

6) Differentiate client-server system and peer-to-peer system.

  • The difference between client-server and peer-to-peer system is that the client to server is a computing system composed of two logical parts: a server, which provides information or services, and a client, which requests them. On a network, for example, users can access server resources from their personal computers using client software while the peer-to-peer system is a networking method of delivering computer network services in which the participants share a portion of their own resources, such as processing power, disk storage, network bandwidth, printing facilities. Such resources are provided directly to other participants without intermediary network hosts or servers

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