The Rise Of Distributed Data Centers In The AI Era

For decades, the data center was a centralized place. As AI shifts to an everyday tool, that model is changing. We are moving ...
Communications of the ACM

How Over-Engineering Became the New Technical Debt in Distributed Systems

Traditional technical debt metaphors suggest something that can be paid down incrementally. Over-engineering does not behave ...
International Monetary Fund

A Crisis Like No Other, An Uncertain Recovery

Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity ...
IEEE

Asynchronous Push-sum Dual Gradient Algorithm in Distributed Model Predictive Control

Abstract: This paper studies the distributed model predictive control (DMPC) problem for distributed discrete-time linear systems with both local and global constraints over directed communication ...
TechCrunch

A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative

Mastodon was founded in 2016 by German software developer Eugen Rochko. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or any other popular social media site, Mastodon is a nonprofit, meaning that, ideally, its ...
IEEE

Pre-Trained Large Model as Distributed PV Power Forecaster: Integrating Scenario-Consistent Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Cross-Modal Semantic Alignment

Abstract: The rapid proliferation of distributed photovoltaic (PV) systems presents significant challenges for accurate power generation forecasting due to their inherent intermittency and ...