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 ...

The enormous growth in artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) is fueling a growing demand for high-efficiency computing to perform real-time analysis on massive amounts of data. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a ...