Distribute System

1. “A system in which hardware or software components located at networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions only by message passing.” (Sebuah sistem dimana komponen software atau hardware-nya terletak di dalam jaringan komputer dan saling berkomunikasi menggunakan message pasing) [Coulouris]
2. “A system that consists of a collection of two or more independent computers which coordinate their processing through the exchange of synchronous or asynchronous message passing.” (Sebuah sistem yang tersusun oleh dua atau lebih komputer dan memiliki koordinasi proses melalui pertukaran pesan sinkron atau asinkron).
3. “A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the users of the system as a single computer.” (Kumpulan komputer independent yang tampak oleh user sebagai satu sistem komputer) [Tanenbaum]
4. “A distributed system is a collection of autonomous computers linked by a network with software designed to produce an integrated computing facility.” (Kumpulan komputer autonom yang dihubungkan oleh jaringan dengan software yang d i ranca ng u nt uk menghasilkan fasilitas komputasi terintegrasi)

Sumber :
http://ketu89.blogspot.com/2010/03/definisi-sistem-terdistribusitersebar.html