1016: Mainline

The reasons why you might want your computer, a client, to run a method on another computer, a server, include the following:

• The method requires a great deal of computation, and the server is a faster computer.
• The method requires a great deal of computation, and you have managed to break up the computation into multiple pieces, which you can ship off to multiple server computers.
• The method is maintained by someone else; rather than enduring reinstallations, you simply run the method remotely, on the server, where the method is maintained.
• The method makes use of information that is available on a server, but is not available on your computer.