The European Middleware Initiative (EMI) is a computer software platform for high performance distributed computing.

Computer clusters emerged as a result of convergence of a number of computing trends including the availability of low cost microprocessors, high speed networks, and software for high performance distributed computing.

The name WANdisco is an acronym: Wide Area Network distributed computing).

Online distributed computing is almost entirely a volunteer endeavor.

The idea was to distribute computing and data to gain performance and reliability.

If you're doing a bunch of floating point tasks, as "distributed computing" workloads generally are, then this won't improve performance much at all.

In computerese, this is distributed computing, where some processing work is done by the customer at his or her table, instead of entirely in the kitchen (centralized computing in the old mainframe days).

The idea flopped because it proved to be too complex a challenge to write the software needed to distribute computing as a service from a central time-shared machine to many users.

Distributing computing and the Astropulse algorithm may thus lend itself to further detection of RRATs.

NASA and Google are planning to work together on a variety of areas, including large-scale data management, massively distributed computing, bio-info-nano convergence, and encouragement of the entrepreneurial space industry.