June 16th, 2005
There Goes the Neighborhood: Microsoft to Create Competing BitTorrent Technology
Nice code name: avalanche. Says it all don’t you think?
“Researchers at Microsoft’s Cambridge, England, labs are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files such as films, television programs and software applications to end-users over the Internet.
Code-named Avalanche, the technology is similar to existing peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file swapping systems such as BitTorrent’s, in the sense that large files can be divided into many smaller pieces to ease their distribution. End users request the file parts from other users’ hard drives and reassemble them to create the original file. Such systems can scale well to serve millions of users, and reduce the bandwidth and computing costs of sending content directly to users from central servers. Some have also irritated publishers who complain the services are used to share copyright works illegally.
“The problem with existing systems, according to Microsoft, is that people sometimes have wait a long time to receive the last, “rare” pieces of a file. This is made worse when clients drop off line unexpectedly and creates bottlenecks when only a few clients have files that are in high demand. Avalanche goes a long way to solving these problems, according to Peter Key, joint head of the systems and networking group at Microsoft’s research labs in Cambridge, during an open day on Wednesday. ” Source: Infoworld
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Microsoft to Create Competing BitTorrent Technology
There Goes the Neighborhood. Nice code name: avalanche. Says it all don’t you think? here’s what Infoworld had to say: Researchers at Microsoft’s Cambridge, England, labs are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to d…
June 16th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
Al says:
Am I the only person in the world not enamored of BitTorrent? In my situation I can seldom download at speeds greater than 80 to 120 Kbs using BitTorrent but almost always achieve 250 to 500Kbs downloading directly from a single source with the fiber optic connection that I have. Downloading test files I get 550Kbs routinely and often as high as 750Kbs. I downloaded a 450 meg (linux distro) file the other day using BitTorrent and never got higher than 80Kbs. Unfortunately it was only available using BitTorrent. It would be great to hear other people’s actual experiences. Maybe I’m just lucky?
June 16th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
Alice says:
Not sure what you are downloading and what BiTorrent version you have, but if you set your slider all the way to the far right, it flies. I try and give back and leave my files open as well, but that seems to do the trick for me anyway.
June 16th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
Peter says:
Wow! Seems like they decided to use the research done for the Farsite project to implement it in a practical P2P application, much as what Bram Cohen did with Bittorrent and the startup he originally belonged to.
Check out
http://research.microsoft.com/~pablo/avalanche.htm
For more details on how avalanche works.
June 16th, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Al says:
Just for the interest I am currently downloading Slax-6.0.5 using an HP ze4901us with 734MB RAM and a fiber optic connection. Double simultaneoous download, one using BitTorrent and one using ftp from U. of Oregon. Speed of BitTorrent is ranging from 117 KB/s to 125 KB/s. The ftp download is steady at 225 KB/s.
June 16th, 2005 at 8:50 pm
Tom says:
point-to-point is usually faster than BT or Edonkey for files that no one else is chasing or on machines that aren’t loaded. The biggest benefit of the distributed multisource networks is their scalability. When there’s a new version of Gnoppix released the only place I can get any transfer rate is BT; the standard mirrors are swamped for a day or two.
June 17th, 2005 at 4:26 am
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Microsoft goes Peer-to-Peer
Microsoft is developing its own file-sharing technology which they claim it could make easier to distribute large files such as films, television programs and software applications to end users over the Internet.
Avalanche, its nickname, uses a techn…
June 18th, 2005 at 11:39 pm
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June 20th, 2005 at 5:17 pm
rjt says:
Al — In a world where bandwidth costs money, BitTorrent’s primary goal (like that of Avalanche) appears to be reducing the bandwidth requirements of the content publisher. Content consumers primarily benefit by having more and cheaper content, not necessarily faster download rates (although these aren’t mutually exclusive goals.)
Notice the first paragraph of this article? “Researchers at Microsoft’s Cambridge, England, labs are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files such as films, television programs and software applications to end-users over the Internet.” The emphasis is on benefits to the publisher, not the consumer.
And that Linux distro that was only available as a torrent? Ever wondered why that might be?
June 20th, 2005 at 7:12 pm
Peter says:
Via John Dvorak’s article, noticed that Bram Cohen has a blog, and Bram has responded to the Avalanche paper: http://www.livejournal.com/users/bramcohen/20140.html
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