# Distributed computing | | A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another. **Distributed computing** is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Distributed computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing) | [[Usenet]] [[InterPlanetary File System]] [[BitTorrent]]