Scribd
Upload
107 views

Client Server Computing

The client-server model is a computing architecture where client systems, such as personal computers, output devices or mobile devices, make requests to server systems like web servers, database servers or application servers to access centralized resources or services. In a client-server network, clients initiate communication sessions with servers which await incoming requests and provide functions or services to one or many clients. Common examples of client-server applications include web browsing, email and database access.

Uploaded by

suyashsonu
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
107 views

Client Server Computing

The client-server model is a computing architecture where client systems, such as personal computers, output devices or mobile devices, make requests to server systems like web servers, database servers or application servers to access centralized resources or services. In a client-server network, clients initiate communication sessions with servers which await incoming requests and provide functions or services to one or many clients. Common examples of client-server applications include web browsing, email and database access.

Uploaded by

suyashsonu
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

The clientserver model is a computing model that acts as distributed application which partitions tasks or workloads between the

providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients.[1] Often clients and servers communicate over a computer network on separate hardware, but both client and server may reside in the same system. A server machine is a host that is running one or more server programs which share their resources with clients. A client does not share any of its resources, but requests a server's content or service function. Clients therefore initiate communication sessions with servers which await incoming requests. The clientserver characteristic describes the relationship of cooperating programs in an application. The server component provides a function or service to one or many clients, which initiate requests for such services. Functions such as email exchange, web access and database access, are built on the clientserver model. Users accessing banking services from their computer use a web browser client to send a request to a web server at a bank. That program may in turn forward the request to its own database client program that sends a request to a database server at another bank computer to retrieve the account information. The balance is returned to the bank database client, which in turn serves it back to the web browser client displaying the results to the user. The clientserver model has become one of the central ideas of network computing. Many business applications being written today use the clientserver model. So do the Internet's main application protocols, such as HTTP, SMTP, Telnet, and DNS. A client-server network involves multiple clients connecting to a single, central server. The file server on a client-server network is a high capacity, high speed computer with a large hard disk capacity.

Generally a server may be challenged beyond its capabilities. Then a single server may cause a overload problem. Limitations include network load, network address volume, and transaction recovery time. As soon as the total number of simultaneous client requests to a given server increases, the server can become overloaded. Clients and servers typically run on dierent computers interconnected by a computer network. Any use of the Internet (q.v.), such as information retrieval (q.v.) from the World Wide Web (q.v.), is an example of clientserver computing. However, the term is generally applied to systems in which an organization runs programs with multiple components

distributed among computers in a network. The concept is frequently associated with enterprise computing, which makes the computing resources of an organization available to every part of its operation. A client application is a process or program that sends messages to a server via the network. Those messages request the server to perform a specic task, such as looking up a customer record in a database or returning a portion of a le on the servers hard disk. The client manages local resources such as a display, keyboard, local disks, and other peripherals. The server process or program listens for client requests that are transmitted via the network. Servers receive those requests and perform actions such as database queries and reading les. Server processes typically run on powerful PCs, workstations (q.v.), or mainframe (q.v.) computers. An example of a clientserver system is a banking application that allows a clerk to access account information on a central database server. All access is done via a PC client that provides a graphical user interface (GUI). An account number can be entered into the GUI along with how much money is to be withdrawn or deposited, respectively. The PC client validates the data provided by the clerk, transmits the data to the database server, and displays the results that are returned

You might also like