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 ...

Getting the most from performance analysis of distributed computer systems Your email has been sent Tasked with setting up a performance test for an n-tier distributed system? Before you get ...

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 part of ...

What do you think your computer does most of the time? For most of us, most of the time, it just sits there idly spinning its wheels. These programs use the power of up to hundreds of thousands of ...

Developing a thorough test plan and benchmarks for a distributed system takes careful planning. Follow this advice on tracking down bottlenecks and analyzing performance results. This is the second in ...

By keeping track of this clock as it is updated by various processes across the computer the distributed system can be much more confident about the order in which events took place.

Ask any programmer who has ever had to deal with timekeeping on a computer, and they’re likely to go on at length about how it can be a surprisingly difficult thing to keep track of. Time zones, leap ...

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 ...