The mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto is often credited with inventing blockchain – the tech behind the recent cryptocurrency and decentralization boom. But long before Nakamoto published his seminal paper ...

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 ...

Researchers hunt for weaknesses in large node-based systems. U.S. government computer scientists are studying how computer grids react to volatile conditions to understand how events such as virus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...