The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

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Google's TensorFlow machine learning system can now be distributed across multiple machines in an update, TensorFlow 0.8. The machine learning software is already distributed across hundreds of ...

Cloud computing is increasingly distributed, which creates a major leap in complexity, driving the need for AI-based automation. Written by eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially ...

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 ...

In a post on its Research Blog, Google today announced that it is making some significant improvements to TensorFlow. For those unfamiliar, TensorFlow is the company’s open source machine learning ...

Success can be its own kind of punishment in this world. Since the dawn of modern computing 130 years ago with tabulating machines derived from looms, there have always been issues of scale when it ...

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 ...

For several years now, kindly volunteers have been contributing their spare computing power to vast, distributed supercomputers, all in the name of worthy causes. Spare computing cycles have been used ...

Genetically engineered bacteria, rigged up as a distributed computing system, might help realize synthetic biology’s loftier goals. E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it ...