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    But he is even more excited by SELFMAN’s implications. "The actual smartness of the internet comes from applications like Google or Wikipedia, not from the plumbing that just shuffles data around ... SELFMAN takes those smart components and amplifies them – makes them automatically more efficient, more scalable and more robust." This is the second of a two-part special feature on SELFMAN. Full Article at AlphaGalileo,org
    The actual smartness of the internet comes from applications like Google or Wikipedia, not from the plumbing that just shuffles data around ... SELFMAN takes those smart components and amplifies them – makes them automatically more efficient, more scalable and more robust.
    SOURCE: AlphaGalileo,org 2 months ago
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Self-managing internet applications flex their muscles
  1. Until now, P2P wasted enormous amounts of bandwidth because of its random routing of data ... Some service providers had to block certain P2P applications.
    SOURCE: AlphaGalileo,org 2 months ago
  2. Every piece of information in our Wikipedia exists four times – that’s a number that we found works well – and is spread over all the nodes ... A clever algorithm called Paxos does the heavy lifting to make sure the nodes all agree.
    SOURCE: AlphaGalileo,org 2 months ago
  3. It’s the first time that we’ve been able to get large internet applications with many computers talking together, when all the applications can take care of themselves ... Now we are taking this to the next level.
    SOURCE: AlphaGalileo,org 2 months ago
  4. They had a very different problem ... PeerTV needed to manage load between flowing streams of video data coming from a few big servers but going to millions of clients.
    SOURCE: AlphaGalileo,org 2 months ago
  5. We want to make this kind of application easy, so people can really take advantage of this huge network of computers and small devices
    SOURCE: AlphaGalileo,org 2 months ago
  6. With our wiki, if ten times as many people start to use it, you just add more machines ... We can handle far more users than the actual Wikipedia.
    SOURCE: AlphaGalileo,org 2 months ago
  7. It really shows the kind of things we want to do
    SOURCE: AlphaGalileo,org 2 months ago

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