Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers.
与 networking 的区别是，networking 并不一定涉及显式的计算，可以分发静态内容，而 distributed computing 必然涉及到计算。
- IPC 尽管也不涉及显式的计算，但并不像 networking 一样在不同的物理位置间传输信息，更像是 OS 的一种内部计算过程。