These transactions are recorded in the general journal first, and typically include more information than is included in the accounting ledger; the balance of each account is not included. As in the accounting ledger, however, the credits and debits listed in the general journal must total zero.
Part of the Software applications glossary: Distributed computing is a model in which components of a software system are shared among multiple computers to improve efficiency and performance.
Distributed computing also refers to the use of distributed systems to solve computational problems. In distributed computing, a problem is divided into many tasks, each of which is solved by one or more computers, which communicate with each other by message passing. computer program that runs in a distributed system is called a distributed program, and distributed programming is the process of writing such programs.