Client/Server

Distributed computing network systems in which transaction responsibilities are divided into two parts: client and server.
Clients rely on servers for services such as file storage, printing and processing power. Also a computing model in which the application processing load is distributed between a client and a server computer, which share information over a network. Typically, the client is a PC running front-end software that knows how to communicate with the server (usually database server). The client/server model improves performance, because the client and server share the processing load.