About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 103. Chapters: Distributed bug tracking systems, Distributed file systems, File sharing networks, Peer-to-peer, Gnutella, Direct Connect, FastTrack, Streaming media, Freenet, Napster, LimeWire, BitTorrent, GiFT, Data center, Comparison of video hosting services, Apache Hadoop, Lustre, EarthStation 5, Gnutella2, EMule, IBM General Parallel File System, Parallel Virtual File System, EDonkey network, Sneakernet, Content delivery network, NeoEdge Networks, Comparison of streaming media systems, WASTE, WinMX, VeryCD, Seedbox, OFFSystem, Winny, Hotline Communications, Kontiki, Wuala, Privacy in file sharing networks, Google File System, Perfect Dark, P2PTV, Andrew File System, ShareNow, Sector/Sphere, Cloudant, Scour, Ceph, Applejuice, Moose File System, Mnet, Fossil, Ikiwiki, HTTP(P2P), Wirehog, Razorback2, Opennap, POHMELFS, Org-mode, Koorde, XtreemFS, Turtle F2F, GlusterFS, Soribada, Superdistribution, OneFS distributed file system, HAMMER, PPS.tv, DCE Distributed File System, Kad network, PeerWeb, Infinit, Cabos, FhGFS, Entropy, Grid casting, Cloudera, Open Media Network, BigCouch, P2P-Next, Tahoe Least-Authority Filesystem, Rita M. Johnson, Storage@home, Overnet, Web acceleration, Multisource File Transfer Protocol, Notice and notice, Avalanche, End System Multicast, DarkNET Conglomeration, Gfarm file system, Gitit, Distributed Networking, The Circle, ExoSee, Apache Hive, CloudStore, Key-based routing, Rendezvous protocol, Peersites, Proxyshare, Global Storage Architecture, Gnoozle. Excerpt: BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and it has been estimated that it accounted for roughly 27% to 55% of all Internet traffic (depending on geographical location) as of February 2009. Programmer Bram Cohen d...
