A local process will use the computation resources of a single machine; $1.$a distributed process has access to the computation resources across a two or more machines connected through a network$2.$Both local and distributed processes will use same computation resources but may use different storage environments$3.$local processes effectively use the RAM for in$-$memory computing and distributed processes can't do this well$\mathrm{.}4.$Both local and distributed processes will use same computation and storage environments