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 ...

For decades, the data center was a centralized place. As AI shifts to an everyday tool, that model is changing. We are moving ...

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 ...

Basic principles behind distributed systems (collections of independent components that appear to users as a single coherent system) and main paradigms used to organize them. This course satisfies 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 ...

Planetary Society Salutes Top 10 Teams and Individuals on SETI@home’s 5th Anniversary Five years after The Planetary Society helped launch SETI@home, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that ...

The aftermath of the general election held on the 13th has yet to subside. There is much to discuss, from the birth of a minority government for the first time in 16 years, the advance of a third ...

File management software maker Peer Software plans to launch Linux file server compatibility this summer, along with enhanced artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-based file access anomaly ...