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 ...

Researchers are testing a distributed computing network based on a social graph of users you already trust, called SocialCloud. This network will allow you to assign tasks to different user nodes ...

Caching functions as an essential business performance and cost efficiency tool for distributed architectures, far beyond its ...

If you've ever gotten a more spacious closet, a larger desk, or even a bigger house, you've probably been surprised at how quickly it fills up and no longer seems quite big enough. Business computers ...

Like Apple once did with Xcode and Xgrid, it wants to leverage all the processors you have across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad and make them work together for you when you need more processing power.

Is it better to be as accurate as possible in machine learning, however long it takes, or pretty darned accurate in a really short amount of time? For DeepMind researchers Peter Buchlovsky and ...

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 ...

Who is Daedaelus? What problem is the company trying to solve? What does quantum information theory have to do with this? Distributed systems are the norm these days, and you might think that all of ...

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 ...