Researchers are testing a distributed computing network based on a social graph of users you already trust, called SocialCloud. This network will allow you to assign tasks to different user nodes ...

According to Bitcoin Charts, which tracks activity on the distributed global network of bitcoin mining computers, the network has achieved a hashrate (the rate at which new blocks of bitcoins are ...

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 ...

What do you think your computer does most of the time? For most of us, most of the time, it just sits there idly spinning its wheels. These programs use the power of up to hundreds of thousands of ...

Pervasive computing and distributed computing. Chances are, your customers have been using both of those terms a lot lately. But it's up to you to set the record straight and identify how they can ...

A distributed system has a number of independent computers allied up a network and sharing middleware which enables computers to organize their behavior and behave as a single coherent system. Mobile ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wikia, the company created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, has acquired the Grub distributed indexing system from LookSmart and is preparing to distribute Grub's code under an open-source license.