Question

Give five types of hardware resource and five types of data or software resource that can usefully be shared. Give examples of their sharing as it occurs in practice in distributed systems.

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Step-by-step explanation:

Hardware resources that can be usefully shared and also examples of their sharing include;

A) CPU servers, which carry out computations for clients.

B) Network capacity transmission of data or packet transmission is done using the same circuit, meaning many communication channels share the same circuit.

C) Screen networks windows systems which enable processes in remote computers to update the contents of their local server.

D) Memory cache server.

E) Disk file server, virtual disk server.

Softwares include;

A) Web-page web servers which allow client programs to have read-only access to page contents.

B) Database whose contents can be usefully shared.

C) File servers enable multiple users access to files .

D) Objects can be shared in distributed systems example shared ticket booking, whiteboard etc.

E) Exclusive lock which enables the coordination of accessing a special resource.