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NETI@Home to Examine Net's Strengths

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the optimize-this dept.

UnresolvedExternal writes "Wired is reporting about Georgia Tech researchers who want thousands of computer users to install their program to help them monitor traffic patterns on the Internet. They plan to use the data to strengthen the Net and unblock bottlenecks."

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  1. its stengths are easy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. pr0n
    2. uninformed babbling by consipracy freaks
    3. iditiotic blogs noobody cares about

  2. Recent Findings by LOL+WTF+OMG!!!!!!!!! · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Indicate the presence of a large DDoSing group known as 'Slashdot'. We will be looking further into this matter"

    --
    That CSS file that blocks ads
  3. Re:Reduce Load by cexshun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And when you also take random port scanning into account, one could easily estimate at least half of all internet traffic is either spam or port/vulnerability scanning. Get rid of both of these and connection speeds will jump!

  4. SETI or NETI? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Arggh Its every geeks worst scheduling nightmare! Do I want the aliens or the faster pr0n. Dang what a scheduling conflict.

  5. This just in from the future... by Scorchio · · Score: 5, Funny

    Researchers at Georgia Tech are concluding their two-year distributed analysis of network usage, concluding that most bottlenecks were, in fact, caused by NETI@Home traffic.

  6. NETI@Home results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Internet traffic composition:

    49.7% 0
    49.7% 1
    00.6% Other

  7. Faster? by akeyes · · Score: 5, Funny

    They want to figure out how to make the Internet faster and more reliable, but to do that they need to gather data from tens of thousands of personal computers around the world.

    So, they want to make it faster by having people send out and receive more data.

  8. Re:I don't think so... by lambent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Different people value things differently.

    For example, a concerted effort to improve the quality of the net infrastructure could lead to more efficient distributed computing platforms, which means that eventually someone would write an improved folding program.

    It's akin to an old computer science problem ... you can start a heavily computational algorithm now, and waste your time, or wait a few years for computers to be many times faster, and then do the parts of the calculation that you put off in a fraction of the time. Or wait a little longer ...

    So, some people do the work now, and others work to improve the systems we use to do work. Seems worthwhile to me.

    Personally, I run chessbrain.