I asked frequent contributor Roger Ramjet to write a guest blog presenting and defending his idea that distributed Unix makes more sense than my smart display approach. Here's his contribution - read ...

The world of distributed computing took on a new profile this year when Folding@home, a 20-year-old distributed computing project, found itself picking up thousands of new volunteers to help COVID-19 ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is bored of the auto industry. We've known that for a while, but Tesla's recent earnings call really solidified the CEO's wandering priorities as the executive team attempted to ...

A special project to accelerate the hunt for a cure for anthrax by harnessing PCs around the globe using a distributed computing model was unveiled today. In an announcement today, the National ...

The global COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated some of the security risks associated with the move to a more distributed computing model. Here are 4 ways security organizations are responding as edge ...

Over the past year, there has been rapid, widespread adoption of cloud infrastructure as companies race to launch and scale digital services and applications to stay connected and competitive in a ...

So the LHC is turned on! And it works great. And we're still alive. I'm not gonna beat that horse today. (See Ars for snark) But a good IT angle here. LHC is really only possible because of the growth ...

It's rare to see an enterprise that relies solely on centralized computing. But there are nevertheless still many organizations that do keep a tight grip on their internal data center and eschew any ...

Distributed deep learning has emerged as an essential approach for training large-scale deep neural networks by utilising multiple computational nodes. This methodology partitions the workload either ...