Editing Distributed computing (section)

==Examples==
Examples of distributed systems and applications of distributed computing include the following:<ref>{{harvtxt|Andrews|2000}}, p. 10–11. {{harvtxt|Ghosh|2007}}, p. 4–6. {{harvtxt|Lynch|1996}}, p. xix, 1. {{harvtxt|Peleg|2000}}, p. xv. {{harvtxt|Elmasri|Navathe|2000}}, Section 24.</ref>
* [[telecommunications]] networks:
** [[telephone network]]s and [[cellular network]]s,
** [[computer network]]s such as the [[Internet]],
** [[wireless sensor network]]s,
** [[routing algorithm]]s;
* network applications:
** [[World Wide Web]] and [[peer-to-peer network]]s,
** [[massively multiplayer online game]]s and [[virtual reality]] communities,
** [[distributed database]]s and [[distributed database management system]]s,
** [[Distributed file system|network file system]]s,
** distributed cache such as [[burst buffer]]s,
** distributed information processing systems such as banking systems and airline reservation systems;
* real-time process control:
** [[aircraft]] control systems,
** [[industrial control system]]s;
* [[parallel computation]]:
** [[scientific computing]], including [[cluster computing]], [[grid computing]], [[cloud computing]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Haussmann |first1=J. |title=Cost-efficient parallel processing of irregularly structured problems in cloud computing environments |journal=Journal of Cluster Computing |date=2019 |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=887–909 |doi=10.1007/s10586-018-2879-3 |s2cid=54447518 }}</ref> and various [[List_of_volunteer_computing_projects|volunteer computing projects]],
** [[distributed rendering]] in computer graphics.
* [[peer-to-peer]]