Peer-to-peer networks

  • Authors:
  • Geoffrey Fox

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Computing in Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Will peer-to-peer computing be the next killer Internet application? Like most over-hyped concepts, P2P is loosely defined and covers a set of rather disparate ideas. Perhaps the only common theme is a client-oriented view of the world; you might think of P2P as "Power to the People." The servers are subservient to the clients, which do most of the work.