Centralised Distributed Computing According to Statista: the present market leaders in the so-called ‘Public cloud software as a service (SaaS)’ market in 2017 were comprised entirely of ...

While no single distributed project is as fast as a Top500 supercomputer, they're still faster than the computers to which most researchers have access. Distributed computing is as old as the hills.

Distributed computing projects take advantage of processors that are not otherwise being used by stringing them together in a virtual daisy chain to form a supercomputer--often for research purposes.

Success can be its own kind of punishment in this world. Since the dawn of modern computing 130 years ago with tabulating machines derived from looms, there have always been issues of scale when it ...

The world of distributed computing took on a new profile this year when Folding@home, a 20-year-old distributed computing project, found itself picking up thousands of new volunteers to help COVID ...

Distributed data management and data center design For companies either running in the cloud - or looking to move an application to a multi-cloud approach - implementing a hybrid cloud database ...

A former computer administrator at DeKalb Technical College in Georgia could face up to 30 years in jail because he installed distributed computing software on the school's computers.

Introduction In case you haven't noticed, distributed computing is hard. The problem is that it is becoming increasingly important in the world of enterprise application development. Today, developers ...

In a recent article on the Ably Blog, Alex Diaconu reviewed the thirty-year-old "eight fallacies of distributed computing" and provided a number of hints at how to handle them.

Thanks to modern computing, the 8 fallacies of distributed computing are being rendered obsolete In 1969, the U.S. Department of Defense created ARPANET, the precursor to today’s internet.