The main aim of which of the following is to make a network work as a single…

Concept

Distributed computing coordinates autonomous computers connected by a network so that communication, resource sharing, and services can be presented as one coherent system. Parallel computing divides a computation into simultaneous tasks to reduce execution time; it may use processors within one machine and does not by itself define a network-wide single-system view.

Application

Distributed computing coordinates networked machines and presents their resources through a coherent system view. Parallel computing decomposes a workload for simultaneous execution to reduce elapsed time. Therefore the distributed-computing statement, rather than the parallel-computing statement, describes the aim in the stem.

Contrast

• Distributed computing alone identifies the system-wide coordination aim without assigning it to workload decomposition.

• Parallel computing alone identifies workload decomposition for speed rather than a network-wide system view.

• Both paradigms would treat system coordination and simultaneous execution as the same defining aim.

• Neither paradigm would deny that distributed coordination supplies a coherent service view across networked machines.

Therefore, the applicable statement is distributed computing alone, and the answer value is Only (i).