One of the promise of distributed computing is fault tolerance by mean a computing system is resilient to a predicted and un predicted failure of its components. The fault tolerance can be asserted in ...

Leslie Lamport gives the rather comical definition that: "A distributed system is one in which I can't get my work done because a computer I've never heard of has crashed" Although he was joking, this ...

Keynote Lecture : Learning Representations: Opportunities for Parallel and Distributed Computing Summary form only given, as follows. The complete presentation was not made available for publication ...

Centralised computing systems are giving way to more modular and scalable architectures, according to General Micro Systems. The US-based rugged server company General Micro Systems (GMS) introduced a ...