So what’s the difference? At a fundamental level, distributed computing and concurrent programming are simply descriptive terms that refer to ways of getting work done at runtime (as is parallel ...

It would for example be an interesting exercise to implement a Blackboard System, something that is generally very hard, due to all the potential problems related to distributed computing that needs ...

This is an example of how distributed computing applications will be deployed in the future, he says. “You’re doing a bunch of training on a neural net for what does a smoke plume look like. You don’t ...

Like edge computing, the distributed cloud is a framework that helps bring business data closer to its source.

Quantum computing has long held the promise of solving problems far beyond the reach of classical computers, but a major bottleneck remains – scalability.

Over the weekend, the people who manage the SETI@home distributed-computing project announced it would be going on hiatus at the end of March. The project was one of the first efforts that ...

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.