Developing a thorough test plan and benchmarks for a distributed system takes careful planning. Follow this advice on tracking down bottlenecks and analyzing performance results. This is the second in ...

For decades, the data center was a centralized place. As AI shifts to an everyday tool, that model is changing. We are moving ...

An operating system designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is part of ...

Genetically engineered bacteria, rigged up as a distributed computing system, might help realize synthetic biology’s loftier goals. E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it ...

Planetary Society Salutes Top 10 Teams and Individuals on SETI@home’s 5th Anniversary Five years after The Planetary Society helped launch SETI@home, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that ...

Ask any programmer who has ever had to deal with timekeeping on a computer, and they’re likely to go on at length about how it can be a surprisingly difficult thing to keep track of. Time zones, leap ...

Five years after The Planetary Society helped launch SETI@home, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that utilizes a distributed computer system, the project now operates as the most powerful ...

The official Raspberry Pi Foundation website has this week published a new article discussing Raspberry Pi cluster computing and the OctaPi computer system which is based at GCHQ and was featured in ...