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Sunday, October 03, 2010

A Review of Peer to Peer

In the CACM: A good review article:

Peer-to-Peer Systems
Within a decade, P2P has proven to be a technology that enables innovative new services and is used by millions of people every day. by Rodrigo Rodrigues, Peter Druschel

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has attracted significant interest in recent years, originally sparked by the release of three influential systems in 1999: the Napster music-sharing system, the Freenet anonymous data store, and the SETI@home volunteer-based scientific computing projects. Napster, for instance, allowed its users to download music directly from each other's computers via the Internet. Because the bandwidth-intensive music downloads occurred directly between users' computers, Napster avoided significant operating costs and was able to offer its service to millions of users for free. Though unresolved legal issues ultimately sealed Napster's fate, the idea of cooperative resource sharing among peers found its way into many other applications ... "

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