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 ...

Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

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What’s the big IT story of 2016 going to be? All fingers seem to be pointing at Bitcoin, along with the blockchain architecture that empowers its distributed nature. There are two reasons why Bitcoin ...

Distributed systems are essential for powering modern solutions, from social media platforms to global e-commerce sites. These systems break down complex tasks by distributing them across multiple ...

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The 10 X increase in complexity for the future 4G telecommunication terminals is a major challenge for system designers. SoC solutions seem the only answer to cope with the performance requirements, ...

Many organizations in the healthcare and life sciences industries are just now exploring the opportunities surrounding the dominant entries in the distributed processing architectures, Hadoop and ...