Monday, March 2, 2009
P2P Architectures (and Zebras)
Gonzalo Camarillo has just submitted draft-iab-p2p-archs-00, an overview on P2P architectures:
In this document we provide a survey of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) systems.
The survey includes a definition and a taxonomy of P2P systems. This
survey also includes a description of which types of applications can
be built with P2P technologies and examples of P2P applications that
are currently in use on the Internet. Finally, we discuss
architectural tradeoffs and provide guidelines for deciding whether
or not a P2P architecture would be suitable to meet the requirements
of a given application.
The documents definition of a P2P system:
We consider a system to be P2P if the elements that form the system share their resources in order to provide the service the system has been designed to provide.
The elements in the system both provide services to other elements and request services from other elements.
and a real quote from the draft:
ZebraNet is a network used to track Zebras in the wild.
It contains zebras, so must be worth a read!
posted by Theo Zourzouvillys at
2:41 PM
1 Comments:
I did have a gander at this document as I seem to have a bad case of insomnia today/yesterday. Not quite sure I would agree about grid computing and clusters.
This is used in LIGO/GEO600 in a p2p type fashion: http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/LDR/
They also came up with: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu which I guess suffers the same fate as the SETI comment in the doc ;-)
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