Just like the client-server and three-tier architectures did, the client-serverless application model will create tremendous opportunity (and disruption) for every kind of customer and vendor in ...

Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

eWEEK 30: Client/server applications were heavily promoted in the 1990s as an effective way to harness the power of PCs connected to corporate networks. But the model just wasn’t scalable.

Distributed operating systems let you fuse a collection of processors into one virtual machine that is independent of the system architecture. System performance, however, will rely heavily on how ...

Folding@home 2.0 is ready for download, and Mac OS X graphical user interface and command line interface clients are now available for the first time. Folding@home is a distributed computing ...