“Edge computing also means less data travels long distances, lowering the load on main servers and networks,” says Neel ...

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 ...

Doctoral Researcher Yasith R. Wanigarathna received the Best Student Paper Award at the 45th IEEE ICDCS 2025 in Glasgow, Scotland. The IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ...

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 ...

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 ...

No device is an island: Your daily computational needs depend on more than just the microprocessors inside your computer or phone. Our modern world relies on “distributed computing,” which shares the ...

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 ...

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 ...