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Coral P2P Cache Enters Public Beta

Posted by timothy on from the will-it-scale dept.

Eloquence writes "infoAnarchy reports that Coral, a peer-to-peer webcaching system, has gone into public beta. Currently the Coral node network is hosted on Planet-Lab, a large scale distributed research network of 400 servers. You can use Coral right now by appending "nyud.net:8090" to a hostname. View Slashdot through Coral. Is this the end of the Slashdot effect?"

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  1. Slashdotted already by Rexz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just kidding.

    1. Re:Slashdotted already by jelevy01 · · Score: 2, Funny

      > Just kidding.
      yea, but its true :)

  2. Anyone see the irony? by bigberk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of, well, slashdoting the solution to slashdotting? Really cool idea though. Nice!

  3. invalidate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    except the cache doesn't contain this post...yet

  4. Dear Lord by over_exposed · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope this isn't the end of the /. effect! What would we do w/o webservers crashing under tremendous loads?!? WE NEED the /. effect! I hope this technology crashes and burns...

    Then again it might not be so bad....

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  5. self-referential slashdotting by Shaheen · · Score: 5, Funny

    so it's like this... people click on a link on slashdot, which gets farmed out to the p2p network to get the cached copy, but there's so many people clicking the link to get the cached copy that they are only slashdotting their own computers since they are all part of the p2p network too! now we can all collectively feel the slashdot effect!

    oh, first post?

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  6. In case Coral gets slashdotted by Rushuru · · Score: 5, Funny

    In case Coral gets slashdotted, use this mirror to view slashdot

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  7. Oh great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh great, the /. effect hits the Coral reefs. Environment, watch out.

  8. Stupid story submitter... :-) by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Funny

    To save their bandwidth, you should've linked to their mirror!
    http://www.nyud.net.nyud.net:8090

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    1. Re:Stupid story submitter... :-) by interiot · · Score: 5, Funny
      In fact, it lets you specify port numbers as well, so you can use the mirror-of-the-mirror too:

      http://www.nyud.net.nyud.net.8090.nyud.net:8090/

      Or the mirror-of-the-mirror-of-the-mirror:

      http://www.nyud.net.nyud.net.8090.nyud.net.8090.ny ud.net:8090/

      They should have posted THAT link to slashdot to see how well the system faired.

  9. Oooh! Graphs! by shish · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pretty picture :)

    http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/stats/

    Doesn't give a usable time scale though; it has "HTTP requests", but not "per second" / "per minute" or anything :(

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  10. doesn't work with www.fyr.com.nyud.net:8090 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, it does and it doesn't. If you hit www.fyr.com.nyud.net:8090 and click Random, you get the first image. But after that... same image, over and over again. You have to explicitly select another image, or forget it.