"Random Walkers" may speed P2P networks

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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Re:non-real time searching?

[guttentag]

The network's ability to provide me with a particular file would go up dramatically if everyone else switched to my revolutionary real-time non-searching model.