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It's very tough to actually believe this article has all the facts straight when they suggest Seti@Home is a peer2peer network..... :o
by ErrantX 17y ago
It's very tough to actually believe this article has all the facts straight when they suggest Seti@Home is a peer2peer network..... :o
- mkyc 17y agoIt is. It's a common misconception that peer-to-peer is only about making the handshake symmetrical. Equal contribution of resources is the important thing. In the case of most peer-to-peer technologies, this contribution is in bandwidth, storage space, and tiny routing computations. In the case of seti@home, the contribution was cpu cycles. http://www.amazon.com/Peer-Peer-Harnessing-Disruptive-Technologies/dp/059600110X http://www.amazon.com/Peer-Peer-Harnessing-Disruptive-Techno... has a chapter on Seti@Home. For those not already running it, please install folding@home on your desktop computers. http://folding.stanford.edu/ http://folding.stanford.edu/
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- andreyf 17y agoHate to be nitpicky, but for something to be peer-to-peer, I'd imagine peers have to be talking to peers... no such thing on Seti@Home :-/
- ErrantX 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_2_peer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_2_peer Look at the 2 images on the right :) Seti@Home nodes connect only to the main server. They never see or hear anything about other nodes either. If the servers died the network would die. But I second the Folding@Home prompting - a great cause!
- mahmud 17y agoErrantX, you should plug your MUCH better article then: http://www.errant.me.uk/blog/2009/07/pirate-bay-considering-the-sale/ http://www.errant.me.uk/blog/2009/07/pirate-bay-considering-...