High Performance Cooperative Data Distribution

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High Performance Cooperative Data Distribution
J. Rick Ramstetter, Stephen Jenks
A scalable, parallel file distribution model
conceptually based on the BitTorrent protocol
Parallel Filesystem Data is striped across
multiple hosts Can result in network bottlenecks
as no one host holds the entire file
Conclusion Speeds faster than normal transfer
from the starting node to the other nodes are
possible with the cooperative data distribution
method. As of now, the speeds achieved do not
live up to the projects original goals. This is
most likely due to high overhead and poor
programming, things which should be fixed with
continued work on the project.
Cooperative Distribution All hosts utilize their
upload bandwidth to send file chunks to other
hosts
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