An operating system designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is ...

Distributed operating systems let you fuse a collection of processors into one virtual machine that is independent of the system architecture. System performance, however, will rely heavily on how ...

Moving towards microservices means moving towards distributed systems where you have to deal with latency, authorization and authentication, and messages that do not arrive, argues Sander ...

Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios. (Thanks to ZDNet blogger @Manan for ...

Amazon's service architecture. Image courtesy Amazon. The idea of a distributed operating system has been around in academia for a long time.

All fingers seem to be pointing at Bitcoin, along with the blockchain architecture that empowers its distributed nature. There are two reasons why Bitcoin is going to be a big thing in 2016, the first ...

I taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Operating Systems, Programming Language Design, Computer Architecture, Distributed Operating Systems, and Systems Programming, as well as co-founding the ...