Ask any programmer who has ever had to deal with timekeeping on a computer, and they’re likely to go on at length about how it can be a surprisingly difficult thing to keep track of. Time zones, leap ...

A distributed computing project called Grub, which harnesses individual users’ spare computing power and internet bandwidth, began cataloguing millions of web pages this week. The project’s home page ...

Distributed Computing In distributed computing systems, a group of computers work together to achieve a common goal. For example, a group of computers might work together to analyze a large data set.

Ask any programmer who has ever had to deal with timekeeping on a computer, and they’re likely to go on at length about how it can be a surprisingly difficult thing to keep track of. Time zones, leap ...