I work with simulation and modeling and sometimes we have to run large tasks that would take days to complete on a single computer. Currently our method of dealing with these is to break up job into ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

Distributed computing is all the rage and some of the scientific projects underway look like they might well enable profound advances. The big question is how do we make it worthwhile for people and ...

Still #110 on team Ars, I crunched a lot of WU back in the day. I switched to F@H for a while, but when I went to Japan the 3rd time about 2007 I lost interest. I haven't ran a distributed client in a ...