On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 3:59PM, Jack Bates wrote:
Matt Levine wrote:
Gomez seems to be trying to do this, with a monetary incentive: http://www.porivo.com/peernetwork/jsp/index.jsp
Test is narrowed to webserver performance and is limited in the actual test methods. From what I can tell, it says nothing about network performance except in the most general aspects (I can download a page from network X faster than network Y). Since it is testing webservers and workload is provided by a central site, there is no peer to peer interaction or discovery. The RIPE-NNC tests are much more related to what I was refering to, although they are limited in many reguards.
Indeed, but some tweaking to the software could have it act in a more broad nature, my point was simply that there's somebody trying to build a metric-oriented 'network' of end-user nodes, similar to SETI (though obviously a commercial venture, in this case).
-Jack
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