This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on Distributed parallel computing. Narrative review articles are also welcomed, to our sister journal Scientific Reviews. For further ...

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 ...

Concurrent and parallel systems span from tightly integrated multicore and many-core processors to distributed clusters and cloud infrastructures. At the hardware level, advances in pipelining, ...

Distributed computing erupted onto the scene in 1999 with the release of SETI@home, a nifty program and screensaver (back when people still used those) that sifted through radio telescope signals for ...