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Stories and comments across the archive that link to darkridge.com.
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Robot Balloon Escapes In Britain
tjake writes "Theres an interesting story running about a intelligent robot balloon that escaped its handlers while being transported around the Magna Science Adventure Centre. "The flyborg has a computerised brain which allows it to avoid obstacles. " It was freed by "a very strong freak gust of wind which ripped the airship out of the hands of its handlers". I'm thinkin, is this a random mistake or the start of the attack?" -
Hypernets -- Good (G)news for Gnutella
Red Roo writes: "This online article addresses the recent criticism of Gnutella network scalability by pointing out that it is a Cayley tree. As a viable candidate for massively scalable P2P bandwidth, all trees are dead! But by going to higher dimensional virtual networks (aka "hypernets") e.g., hypercubes or hypertori, near linear scalability can be achieved for P2P populations on the order of several million peers each with only 20 open connections. This concept seems to have been entirely overlooked by critics and developers alike." -
Mathematical Analysis of Gnutella
jrp2 sent in a paper written by one of Napster's founding engineers. It is a mathematical evaluation of Gnutella discussing why the network won't be able to scale up to any reasonable size. I have been impressed with Gnutella in the past, and have wondered along these same lines in the past. -
Running The Numbers: Why Gnutella Can't Scale
jordan (one of the founding developers of Napster), writes: "As the rumour mill churns over Napster's future, many folks see Gnutella as the next best hope for the music loving file sharing community. Problem is, Gnutella can't scale . [Note: if that URL doesn't work, try this mirror.] Almost all research on Gnutella up till now has been based on observations of the system in the wild, but this paper discusses the technical merits of that statement through a detailed mathematical analysis of the Gnutella architecture." The kind of numbers that you may not like to read if you figure networks expand to accomodate traffic at a never-ending pace. Update: 02/15 12:24 AM by T : Jordan also points to this mirror for your reading pleasure.
