June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 43m
English
The “new” p2p technology is for many as much a “political” statement as a technological one. Perhaps this explains some of the buzz—it’s a revolution of sorts.
Bit 1.16 P2P is about distributed ownership of resources.Characteristic for current p2p networks is that the computing resources (PCs) are owned and managed by the users. |
The issue has several aspects. At its most trivial level, any one entity bears few centralized investments and administrative costs. Even server-mediated solutions can be deployed with modest means, as numerous startups have shown. As nodes connect to the network, offering their resources, a computing entity on a larger scale emerges. This building of distributed supercomputers on a shoestring has ...
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