Distributed systems are used in many applications, including social networking platforms, cloud computing and online retail. The distinctive characteristics of distributed systems make them stand ...

Genetically engineered bacteria, rigged up as a distributed computing system, might help realize synthetic biology’s loftier goals. E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect ...

I am looking into the feasibility for a distributed computing solution to replace a current method, with more of a shared computing idea. I am looking for anyone familiar with this type of set up ...

Apple is not new to distributed computing. As well as its previous inclusion in Xcode for developers, Apple used to support it for researchers and general users as Xgrid, part of Mac OS X Tiger.

Distributed computing systems use idle processor time to crunch raw data. The projects allow organisations to tap vast amounts of unused computing power for very little cost.

Google's new "TF-Replicator" technology is meant to be drop-dead simple distributed computing for AI researchers. A key benefit of the technology can be that it takes dramatically less time to ...