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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. More buzzword bingo. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    ?
    I stopped reading this headline when I saw the word "hypertori", because I knew whoever wrote it thinks i'll believe he's smart simply because he peppers his article with Al Gore-caliber buzzwords.

    So..Who has a really interesting article to share?

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    Bowie J. Poag

  2. wish I understood this kind of math by t0qer · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Anyone have any good learn math links?

    1. Re:wish I understood this kind of math by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Yeah, try this one.

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      "If he thinks he can hide and run from the United States and our allies, he's sorely mistaken." Bush on bin Laden
  3. D'uh by Cynical_Dude · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Which part of that article do I understand?
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