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p2p
Title: p2p
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 360 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
p2p
A P2P application is one where a number of independent computers co-operate on a problem or provide a service, all sharing the load. Some observers believe that "true" P2P systems should not have a central co-ordinating server or management console, and that all work is done at the edge of the network. We would express this as: "any application or process that uses a distributed architecture and direct bi-directional communication between autonomous resources …showed first 75 words of 360 total…
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Centralized/decentralized applications
Applications do not segregate neatly into categories of centralized and decentralized; instead most applications occupy the grey area in between. How centralized or decentralized an application is can be based on three criteria:
Network design--the centralised deployment architecture in the application network
Usage--the level of centralised control of the usage patterns of users in the application
Systems administration--the level of centralised management in the application.
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