Concurrent and parallel systems form the bedrock of modern computational infrastructures, enabling vast improvements in processing speed, efficiency and scalability. By orchestrating multiple ...

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What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

Compared with mainstream enterprise applications, compute-intensive, high-performance computing (HPC) places very different demands on storage systems, so it’s not surprising a number of vendors have ...

AWS recently announced support for conditional writing in Amazon S3, allowing users to check for the existence of an object before creating it. This feature helps prevent overwriting existing objects ...