Distributed computing and systems software form the critical backbone of modern digital infrastructures by enabling a network of autonomous computers to work collaboratively. This paradigm supports ...

Itron's Nick Tumilowicz asserts a need for an integrated approach to grid management that processes and acts on real-time data at the edge.

What do you think your computer does most of the time? For most of us, most of the time, it just sits there idly spinning its wheels. These programs use the power of up to hundreds of thousands of ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

Distributed computing erupted onto the scene in 1999 with the release of SETI@home, a nifty program and screensaver (back when people still used those) that sifted through radio telescope signals for ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Over the past year, there has been rapid, widespread adoption of cloud infrastructure as ...

Cloud computing is increasingly distributed, which creates a major leap in complexity, driving the need for AI-based automation. Written by eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially ...

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-19 ...

As our desktop computers, laptops, mobile devices, etc. stand idly by for a huge portion of the day, the need for computing resources is growing at a fast pace. Large IoT ecosystems, machine learning ...

Distributed cloud, according to Gartner, “is the distribution of public cloud services to different physical locations, while the operation, governance, updates, and evolution of the services are the ...

All modern businesses must process large amounts of data, meaning companies of all sizes have to seek solutions to get fast access, secure storage and easy management of internal and external ...

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 ...