Most companies have NUMA servers, so even their isolated systems have some modicum of distributed computing embedded in them. The NUMA in a two-socket server is so good these days that the overhead is ...

Distributed computing allowed these researchers to efficiently share the computational load between giant mainframes and individual workstations, even if those machines came from different ...

Distributed systems are used in many applications, including social networking platforms, cloud computing and online retail. The distinctive characteristics of distributed systems make them stand ...

Lacking a sufficiently powerful supercomputer, they turned to climateprediction.net, a distributed computing project that runs on the BOINC platform that was first popularized by SETI@home. This ...

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.

Pervasive and distributed computing, two terms that are floating around a lot recently. But in truth, neither term does justice to what's really happening. Written by Ed Sperling, Contributor Jan ...

I work with simulation and modeling and sometimes we have to run large tasks that would take days to complete on a single computer. Currently our method of dealing with these is to break up job ...