compute server

compute server

(computer, parallel)A kind of parallel processor where theparallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or otherconnection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O todisks, terminals and network.

In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU wasprovided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slaveor attached processor, while the CPU having access to alldevices was known as the master processor.