A distributed computing system is a collection of independent computers linked by a computer network that appear to the users of the system as a single coherent system.
There are several advantages and disadvantages of distributed computing system which can be explained as follows:
Advantages of Distributed Computing
Reliability
The important advantage of distributed computing system is reliability. It is more reliable than a single system. If one machine from system crashes, the rest of the computers remain unaffected and the system can survive as a whole.