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 ...

Researchers report distributed-memory implementations of the WCC and CM algorithms that post-process network clusterings for ...

A parallel file system is a software component designed to store data across multiple networked servers. It facilitates high-performance access through simultaneous, coordinated input/output (I/O) ...

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 ...