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Write down the merits and demerits of parallel computing.

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Advantages 

  • If one or more node fails, the entire system will not failed instead it works with reduced performance. This method is called fault tolerance. 
  • Sharing computing power and storage resources with each other. 
  • Distributing tasks to different nodes hence reduce the load of entire system. 
  • It is called load sharing Scaling can be easily done.

Disadvantages

  •  Implementing this is more complex than serial application 
  • Significant changes must be made to make the programs machine independent

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