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

Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), announced the acquisition of thousands of NVIDIA ® Blackwell GPUs to bolster its global distributed cloud infrastructure. The deployment creates a unified platform for AI R&D, ...
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 ...
USA Today

How Neel Somani Views the Future of Distributed Computing

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist with a strong foundation in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, focuses on advancements of distributed computing across personal ...
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 ...