1. A distributed system is one in which components located at networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions only by passing messages. This definition leads to the following especially significant characteristics of distributed systems: o Concurrency of components, o Lack of a global clock o Independent failures of components. Use Steve Furber's SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) as an example to explain the above three characteristics respectively.

1. A distributed system is one in which components located at networked computers communicate and coordinate their actions only by passing messages. This definition leads to the following especially significant characteristics of distributed systems: o Concurrency of components, o Lack of a global clock o Independent failures of components. Use Steve Furber's SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture) as an example to explain the above three characteristics respectively.

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