> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.bdb.ai/bdb-documentation/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.bdb.ai/bdb-documentation/data-pipeline/about-data-pipeline/distributed-compute.md). # Distributed Compute Distributed computing is the process of connecting multiple computers via a local network or wide area network so that they can act together as a single ultra-powerful computer capable of performing computations that no single computer within the network would be able to perform on its own. Distributed computers offer two key advantages: * **Easy scalability:** Just add more computers to expand the system. * **Redundancy:** Since many different machines are providing the same service, that service can keep running even if one (or more) of the computers goes down.

You can run multiple instances of the same process to increase the process throughput. This can be done using the auto scaling feature