Hypernets -- Good (G)news for Gnutella

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 16, 2002 @09:52PM from the network-arcana dept.

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."

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Don't break out the champagne yet... by vandan · 2002-02-16 22:56 · Score: 1, Flamebait

All you P2P advocates (and yes that includes me) had better quit programming P2P platforms and get on your lawyer-faggot wigs because in less than 24 months, Microsoft's DRM will be COMPULSORY on all new computers, and then some.
Tell your local member of parliament you think this fucking stinks. Or bye-bye P2P, scalable or not.