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 ...

A form of distributed computing, edge computing enables compute power to be closer to far-flung sources of data. Written by eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent ...

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 ...

Distributed computing has markedly advanced the efficiency and reliability of complex numerical tasks, particularly matrix multiplication, which is central to numerous computational applications ...

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

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.