I asked frequent contributor Roger Ramjet to write a guest blog presenting and defending his idea that distributed Unix makes more sense than my smart display approach. Here's his contribution - read ...

Gurdip Singh, Divisional Dean, School of Computing, received funding from the National Science Foundation for the project: "EAGER: Distributed Computing Models and Algorithms for Pervasive Systems." ...

The world of distributed computing took on a new profile this year when Folding@home, a 20-year-old distributed computing project, found itself picking up thousands of new volunteers to help COVID-19 ...

A special project to accelerate the hunt for a cure for anthrax by harnessing PCs around the globe using a distributed computing model was unveiled today. In an announcement today, the National ...

So the LHC is turned on! And it works great. And we're still alive. I'm not gonna beat that horse today. (See Ars for snark) But a good IT angle here. LHC is really only possible because of the growth ...