Akamai to Deploy Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to Create One of the World’s Most Widely Distributed AI Platforms

The platform combines NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Servers, featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, and NVIDIA BlueField ® -3 DPUs with Akamai's distributed cloud computing infrastructure and ...
Optics

Cambridge spin-out Nu Quantum raises $60M in series A round

Nu Quantum, the University of Cambridge spin-off developing photonic networking hardware designed to enable distributed quantum computing systems, has raised $60 million. The series A funding round ...
TechCrunch

Anyscale adds $40M to bring its Ray-based distributed computing tech to the enterprise masses

The world of distributed computing took on a new profile this year when Folding@home, a 20-year-old distributed computing project, found itself picking up thousands of new volunteers to help COVID-19 ...
CoinTelegraph

What are distributed systems, and how do they work?

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 ...
Ars Technica

The grandfather of distributed computing projects, SETI@home, shuts down

Over the weekend, the people who manage the SETI@home distributed-computing project announced it would be going on hiatus at the end of March. The project was one of the first efforts that ...