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 ...

System architecture design decisions Coding practices Scalability and capacity planning Performance measurements taken against a distributed computer system are not always consistent.

Getting the most from performance analysis of distributed computer systems Your email has been sent Tasked with setting up a performance test for an n-tier distributed system? Before you get ...

By keeping track of this clock as it is updated by various processes across the computer the distributed system can be much more confident about the order in which events took place.

The Computer Science Department will sponsor a poster session on May 1, 2018 featuring a number of topics, including: distributed applications, games, cryptocurrencies, and network analysis.

Technologies edge computing and containerisation call for teams capable of building distributed systems.

The concept of blockchain technology first appeared in academic papers from 1982, in a dissertation discussing “the design of a distributed computer system that can be established, maintained ...

According to IBM, a distributed computer system uses multiple software components (here, the Folding@Home program) on multiple computers, run as a single system.

Scientists Think They Could Revolutionize Computing by Leveraging Quantum Teleportation Distributed quantum systems may be exactly what we’ve been waiting for.

Genetically engineered bacteria, rigged up as a distributed computing system, might help realize synthetic biology’s loftier goals.