The most popular early distributed computing project, and certainly the most influential, is Seti@home. The purpose of this project, which has been running since 1999, is to see if there are signs ...

David Anderson is a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, former director of the SETI@home project, and current director of the BOINC distributed computing project.

Existing distributed computing frameworks are failing to keep a lid on the growing computational, memory and even energy costs resulting from the constantly expanding volume Big Data for anything ...

The basics of distributed computing. Any time a workload is distributed between two or more computing devices or machines connected by some type of network, that’s distributed computing. There are a ...