What is the difference between cloud computing and distributed computing?

Question

I wanted to know about the difference between cloud computing and distributed computing. I read an article which was based on cloud computing and got a feeling that somewhere there is a relation between cloud computing and distributed computing and so wanted to ask about difference between technologies.

If someone knows it do let me know.

Thanks

Answer 1

The difference between these two technologies are as follows,

Distributed computing involves dividing a large problem into smaller slices and having multiple networked computers process the slices.

Cloud computing usually refers to providing a service via the internet. That service can be pretty much anything, from business software that is accessed via the web to off-site storage or computing resources.