Researchers hunt for weaknesses in large node-based systems. U.S. government computer scientists are studying how computer grids react to volatile conditions to understand how events such as virus ...

System architecture design decisions Coding practices Scalability and capacity planning Performance measurements taken against a distributed computer system are not always consistent.

What are distributed systems, and how do they work? What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system.

The Computer Science Department will sponsor a poster session on May 1, 2018 featuring a number of topics, including: distributed applications, games, cryptocurrencies, and network analysis.

The concept of blockchain technology first appeared in academic papers from 1982, in a dissertation discussing “the design of a distributed computer system that can be established, maintained ...

An operating system designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is ...

The problem has urged the development of Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols and algorithms, which are crucial in ensuring the reliability and consistency of distributed systems.

In 2013, Leslie Lamport, a major figure in the field of distributed systems, was awarded the A. M. Turing Award—the highest distinction in computer science—for his work on algorithms that help ...

Blockchain definition: A blockchain is an ordered, back-linked list of blocks of transactions, distributed across a network of computer systems. Unlike a traditional database, transactions are ordered ...

Genetically engineered bacteria, rigged up as a distributed computing system, might help realize synthetic biology’s loftier goals.