The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

In 1969, the U.S. Department of Defense created ARPANET, the precursor to today’s internet. Around the same time, the SWIFT protocol used for money transfers was also established. These are both early ...

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist with a strong foundation in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, focuses on advancements of distributed computing across personal ...

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 ...

Eric is CEO of Strata Identity, an enterprise cloud identity expert, multi-exit serial entrepreneur and co-author of the SAML SSO standard. Many enterprises are switching to cloud-first operations.

It’s not just cloud and edge anymore as a new layer of distributed computing closer to end devices picks up steam. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines fog computing as a ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More In a nutshell, edge computing is any computing that occurs ...

Over the weekend, the people who manage the SETI@home distributed-computing project announced it would be going on hiatus at the end of March. The project was one of the first efforts that ...

After more than 20 years of inviting the public to help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), the distributed computing project SETI@Home is shutting down. “Scientifically, we’re at ...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a phrase that is neither legal nor technical. Nonetheless, it is increasingly employed in talks concerning the future of finance and its regulation. Decentralization; ...