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2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Distributed Programs
Published in: Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs
Publisher: Springer London
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Many Real Systems consist of a number of physically distributed components that work independently using their private storage, but also communicate from time to time by explicit message passing. Such systems are called
distributed systems
.
Distributed programs
are abstract descriptions of distributed systems. A distributed program consists of a collection of processes that work concurrently and communicate by explicit message passing. Each process can access a set of variables which are disjoint from the variables that can be changed by any other process.