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High PerformanceP2P Web Caching
Erik GarrisonJared FriedmanCS264 PresentationMay 2, 2006
SETI@Home
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Basic Idea: people donate computer time to look for aliens
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Delivered more than 9 million CPU-years
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Guinness BWR – largest computation ever
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Many other successful projects (BOINC, GoogleCompute)
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The point: many people are willing to donatecomputer resources for a good cause
Wikipedia
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About 200 servers required to keep the sitelive
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Hosting & Hardware costs over 1$M per year
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All revenue from donations
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Hard to make ends meet
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Other not-for-profit websites in similar situation
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