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Hypernets -- Good (G)news for Gnutella

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. The Fly In The Hypernet Ointment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had a four dimensional hypernet using a router from Heinlein Technologies installed in our off-site server room and it caused no end of grief.

    Firstly we had a continuing problem with dropped packets but things started really screwing up when our time domain packet switching starting picking up packets that HAD NOT BEEN SENT YET!

    The collision rate went up to an astounding 53% by the time I was able to pull the plug. In short It sucked big time!

    By the way - don't waste your time buying any of those California lotto tickets this week because just before I downed the thing I surfed the net....