Complex, computational work with huge sets of data is now common practice in fields such as genomics, economics, and astrophysics. Researchers in these and similarly data intensive fields depend on ...

Collaboration was the main success factor in the deployment of an all-carrier enterprise distributed antenna system (DAS) for a Midwest power plant. A power plant in the Midwestern U.S. (Figure 1) ...

BigScience, a community project backed by startup Hugging Face with the goal of making text-generating AI widely available, is developing a system called Petals that can run AI like ChatGPT by joining ...

Remote communities have become testing grounds for innovative power projects. These areas traditionally have been powered by fossil fuel generation, usually diesel fuel or oil and sometimes natural ...

Open source has become a critical building block of modern software, and today a new startup is coming out of stealth to capitalise on one of the newer frontiers in open source: using it to build and ...

I'm a working on a research project that has a piece requiring some knowledge of distributed computing. I focus on a variety of technical topics - but distributed computing is totally new to me, so I ...

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The Ecuadorian government, through the Ministry of Environment and Energy, is authorizing 643 MW of private-sector projects to join the National Electricity System. The initiative covers ...

A distributed ledger digital ID project in Taipei city, the capital of Taiwan, represents a new frontier for the use of blockchain-style technology for secure authentication. The effort relies not on ...

Recurrent Energy has been awarded 144.5 MW (AC) of distributed solar power projects by the Ontario Power Authority under the province’s new feed-in tariff program. (UPDATE: Note that original press ...