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Peer-to-Peer Computing

Publication year: 2007

ISBN: 978-1-84628-747-3

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Companies are again searching for ways to improve their processing power without further investment in new hardware and software. Many client computers are idle most of the time, and have unused disk space. The next logical step is to maximise the resources of these computers, and the peer-to-peer (P2P) model is the answer.


Subject: Computer Science, Hardware, Internet, Mainframe, Parallel Computing, Peer, WWW, computer architecture, distributed systems, download, organization, supercomputer