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System architecture design decisions Coding practices Scalability and capacity planning Performance measurements taken against a distributed computer system are not always consistent.

A consensus mechanism is a system that allows nodes in a distributed computer system (database, blockchain or otherwise) to reach a "consensus" about the correct set of data.

The concept of blockchain technology first appeared in academic papers from 1982, in a dissertation discussing “the design of a distributed computer system that can be established, maintained ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of hackers exploiting an arbitrary code execution ...

According to IBM, a distributed computer system uses multiple software components (here, the Folding@Home program) on multiple computers, run as a single system.

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 ...

The problem has urged the development of Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus protocols and algorithms, which are crucial in ensuring the reliability and consistency of distributed systems.

This paper describes a fault hypothesis for distributed integrated architectures, which takes into account the sharing of the communication and computational resources of a single distributed computer ...