A distributed algorithm is an algorithm designed to run on computer hardware constructed from interconnected processors. Distributed algorithms are used...

message passing. The word distributed in terms such as "distributed system", "distributed programming", and "distributed algorithm" originally referred to...

algorithm Mutual exclusion Lamport's Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm Naimi-Trehel's log(n) Algorithm Maekawa's Algorithm Raymond's Algorithm Ricart–Agrawala...

computers. An algorithm designed for such an environment is called a serial algorithm, as opposed to parallel algorithms or distributed algorithms. Parallel...

the distributed edge coloring problem as well. Decentralized algorithms are ones where no message passing is allowed (in contrast to distributed algorithms...

In distributed computing, the bully algorithm is a method for dynamically electing a coordinator or leader from a group of distributed computer processes...

machine replication is a technique for converting an algorithm into a fault-tolerant, distributed implementation. Ad-hoc techniques may leave important...

PageRank (PR) is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank web pages in their search engine results. It is named after both the term "web page" and co-founder...

Many different algorithms have been designed for multiplying matrices on different types of hardware, including parallel and distributed systems, where...

In computer science, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list into an order. The most frequently used orders are numerical order...