"Random Walkers" may speed P2P networks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday July 6, 2002 @04:32AM from the sorta-like-a-mall-walker-but-different dept.

sean23007 writes "New Scientist posts an article about an innovative new method of controlling P2P traffic to maximize speed over a very large network. The idea, thought up by researchers at Princeton, Berkeley, AT&T, and Cisco, involves sending random "walkers" around the network, looking for a particular file, which would theoretically yield much better search speed than such other networks as Gnutella. They claim this could result in a network very capable of facilitating a massive distributed supercomputer."

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I want P2P slashdot... by anthony_dipierro · 2002-07-06 04:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Then I can finally get rid of these big fucking ads.
1. Re:I want P2P slashdot... by HanzoSan · 2002-07-06 05:14 · Score: 1, Offtopic
  
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Re:An analysis of the 9/11 attacks by zapfie · 2002-07-06 05:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Man, you guys aren't even trying anymore, are you?

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