clock

clock
   An electronic circuit that generates regularly spaced timing pulses at speeds up
   • Stand-alone (non-networked) client applications, such as local word processors Applications that run on the client but request data from the server, such as spreadsheets
   • Programs that use server capabilities to share information among network users, such as electronic mail systems
   • Programs in which the physical search of records takes place on the server, while a much smaller program running on the client handles all user-interface functions, such as database applications
   • Client/server computing lightens the processing load for the client PCs, but increases the load on the server. For this reason, server computers tend to have larger and faster hard-disk drives and much more memory installed than conventional file servers. The to millions of cycles per second. These pulses are used to synchronize the flow of information through the computer's internal communications channels.
   See also clock speed.

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