Discovering P2P

Peer to Peer: Groundbreaking, Controversial, and Still Growing Not every "next big thing" has lived up to its promise, but the technologies comprising peer-to-peer computing are definitely here to stay. Inside, Michael Miller walks you through this still-burgeoning field, showing you where it's come from and where it's headed. In between, he looks closely at P2P's current representatives, including Napster, Aimster, and SETI@home, drawing from their successes and controversies to paint a vivid picture of a diverse set of applications that continue to change the way the world thinks about computing. Delve into every aspect of the P2P revolution: * File-sharing * Collaboration * Communication * Distributed computing * Applications development Explore the state of the art in P2P. * Gnutella * Napster * Aimster * Instant messaging * SETI@home * Microsoft's.NET initiative . as well as P2P's origins and future directions.