Nature’s tech blog has this overview of P2P in science.”In response to the ‘computing in science’ post a couple of weeks ago,Anna Winterbottom asked about distributed computing and peer-to-peer networks, and whether we’d be covering them in this blog. I must admit to being pretty ignorant of these areas,especially in their applications to science,so I invited Anna to send me something that I could post.Here it is:Controversy continues to surround peer-to-peer (P2P) networks as a result of ongoing court battles over music and film copyright.However,the efficacy of file sharing protocols such as BitTorrent in speeding up transfers of large data sets,like those involved in genome and phenome projects,is evident.In recent years,scientific uses of P2P have progressed from running large programs using distributed computing power, to developing analytical tools and facilitating multi-institutional collaboration”.Anna goes on to give some examples of this,and she has this website www.firstauthor.org

P2P in science

Nature’s tech blog has this overview of P2P in science.”In response to the ‘computing in science’ post a couple of weeks ago,Anna Winterbottom asked about distributed computing and peer-to-peer networks, and whether we’d be covering them in this blog. I must admit to being pretty ignorant of these areas,especially in their applications to science,so I [...]