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Mathematical Analysis of Gnutella

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-warrants-mentioning dept.

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.

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  1. Re:mathamatical evaluation by madopal · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Moron...if you're going to go out on a limb and snipe someone for errors, at least check your own accuracy!

    It's MATHEMATICAL, and that's not a GRAMMAR issue, it's a SPELLING issue.

    http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=m at hematical

  2. So, you got a better solution? by 2Bits · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Everyone seems to jump on the gun to say this is old news, blah blah...

    If it's such an old news, how come no one on /. has come up with a solution to fix it? Or better yet, a better architecture and protocol?

    I didn't get a chance to read the whole paper, as it stalled half way thru (usual /. effect!). But it looks like a quite serious analysis paper to me. We should at least give him credit for that, there's not many OSS developers who write serious analysis papers, after all.