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 open source software supply-chain vulnerability is an exploitable weakness in trusted software caused by a third-party, ...

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 ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

The National Intellectual Property Administration has disclosed that Snap Inc. applied for a patent titled "Distributed Loading and Training of Machine Learning Models" in February 2024, with the ...

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 ...

When building a web app in previous years, it was common to have a server in a centralised datacentre that would be able to run your application. As usage grew, you would address scalability ...

Microsoft is finishing construction on its first Racine County data center, which is to be completed in early 2026. The ...

The Distributed Control System in the chemical industry is an integrated system built upon computer, communication, and ...

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 ...