slave computer

The slave computers typically have their own version of the same operating system, and local memory and disk space.

More importantly, since it was a more powerful influence, it could program its slave computers to behave the way it wanted them to.

Simon excused himself then and made the rounds of the various slave computer terminals that fed information into, the master computer controlling the display board.

Her starships, piloted by small organo-electronic slave computers under her control, were deadly fighting machines, built solely to conquer.

Criminal attacks now range from programs that steal information from home and corporate PCs to growing armies of slave computers that are wreaking havoc on the commercial Internet.

It is tiny, smaller and thinner than a pin, and it serves multiple purposes: as a body function monitor, as a slave computer, and as a transmitter and receiver.

VVVV includes a feature it calls boygrouping, where one computer controls a number of slave computers to operate in parallel, with all programming and editing is done on the master computer.

In a Beowulf system, the application programs never see the computational nodes (also called slave computers) but only interact with the "Master" which is a specific computer handling the scheduling and management of the slaves.