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Difference between parallel and distributed computing?

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Distributed computing is a subset of parallel computing. Distributed computing is when you use more than one memory address space. In this situation variables are not shared between different threads of a program. The different threads often running on totally septate computers must send messages to each other in order to communicate.

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