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 continuously ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist with a strong foundation in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, focuses on advancements of distributed computing across personal ...

Pervasive computing and distributed computing. Chances are, your customers have been using both of those terms a lot lately. But it's up to you to set the record straight and identify how they can ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

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 ...