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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. Whatever! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is MY United States of Whatever!

  2. Blah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    first post!

  3. I seem to recall... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    a Yahoo News article about this very same Gnutella issue. Here's the link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/ 20020211/tccn/gnutella3847.htm