A field of computing organized around how computers and their components are structured, connected and coordinated as working systems, from a single machine's architecture to a fleet of machines acting as one. Belongs here: Cloud Computing and Grid Computing, both concerned with pooling many machines into a shared computing resource, and Robotics, where a physical machine's own control architecture is the subject. Does not belong here: a field concerned with the algorithms or software that run atop such a system rather than the system's own structure, filed under Computing Methodologies or Software And Its Engineering instead.
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1. Wikipedia: Computer architecture
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The term "architecture" in computer literature can be traced to the work of Lyle R. Johnson and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., members of the Machine Organization department in IBM's main research center in 1959.
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