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Our team is developing efficient peer-to-peer technologies for enterprise applications.
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems enable peer machines to share computing resources in a decentralized fashion. These resources could be data, bandwidth, computing power, or storage.
Peer-to-peer systems have several useful properties. Their decentralized architecture allows them to be robust, scalable, and able to respond flexibly to local conditions. P2P resource sharing enables resources that would otherwise have remained unused to be used by remote peers, thus increasing the system efficiency.
This is a relatively new area for commercial interest and applications, and there are some important open questions. For example, current P2P systems are typically designed for use over the open Internet, and use little information about the underlying network. For applications within managed enterprise networks, more detailed information may be available about the network, and this could be used to improve efficiency. Another open question is how best to encourage peers to share their resources.
This is part of HP's work in Adaptive Infrastructure, moving from the current state in which there are high-cost islands of IT to a future state in which large collections of IT assets are pooled, and hence can be used more efficiently and at lower cost than is currently the case.
Our current work focuses on:
- Collaboration with the Management as a Service project on the effective use of P2P data distribution in managed networks.
- Collaboration with the OurGrid project (http://www.ourgrid.org) at the Federal University of Campina Grande. OurGrid is a P2P network which shares computing resources for bag-of-tasks applications.
- Investigation of technical, economic and social factors associated with high resource donation in P2P communities.
- Miranda Mowbray
- Cristiano Costa (Federal University of Minas Gerais, 2007 intern)
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