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 ...

The MathWorks said that Argonne National Laboratory used tools from The MathWorks – Parallel Computing Toolbox and MATLAB Distributed Computing Server – to help reduce from two weeks to one day the ...

The enormous growth in artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) is fueling a growing demand for high-efficiency computing to perform real-time analysis on massive amounts of data. In ...

Customers and shoppers have benefited greatly from advances in Internet connectivity in recent years. Rapidly growing e-commerce firms have yielded actual big data as a result of these developments.

It's been a while since the Redmondians have talked up "Dryad," Microsoft's answer to Google's MapReduce and Apache's Hadoop. (I think the last time Dryad got any coverage outside the research ...