central server

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central
adjective
uk
/ˈsen.trəl/us
/ˈsen.trəl/
in, at, from, or near the centre or most important part ...
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server
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɜː.vər/us
/ˈsɝː.vɚ/
computing
a central computer from which other computers ...
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The presence of thecentralserverlimits the knowledge that modules need to have of one another.
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The configuration file is interpreted by thecentralserverto allow the actual communication to happen.
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Their gestures are analysed, reduced into control data, and sent to acentralserver.
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All of these in fact go via thecentralserver, which is not shown.
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The messages travel via acentralserver, which also manages time sync between all the slub processes.
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A key decision in choosing an architecture seems to be how active thecentralservershould be.
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Java security restrictions and practical networking issues made direct peer-to-peer communication impossible, necessitating acentralserver.
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All students and faculty members were provided with an expensive laptop, and all classrooms were fully wired so that each student could connect to thecentralserverfrom her desk.
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All fleet information and transactions are held on thecentralserver.
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Due to thiscentralserverand backbone monitoring, many of the programs overlapped and interrelated among one another.
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This allows thecentralserverto, for instance, dynamically balance the load of each crawler.
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Thin clients rely on thecentralserverfor the processing and thus require a fast server.
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Some would use acentralserver, some would use technology to determine what's being shared, others would rely on self-reporting.
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Computing power is often bundled together or pooled into acentralserverto reduce variance in miner income.
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Thecentralservermay become the bottleneck, so most of the workload must be transferred to the distributed crawling processes for large crawls.
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It uses a distributed crawler that stores search data on users' computers instead of acentralserver.
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During this process, the resources in the clients could be utilized through thecentralserverso long as the main channel is maintained.
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The online suite puts independent office applications onto acentralserver, making them accessible through a web browser.
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It would be uploaded to thecentralserverand indexed along with the records from other public servers.
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A common hybrid model is to have acentralserverthat helps peers find each other.
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