Slight OT: NASA World Wind project looking for support from network operators.

Wed Jun 8 01:46:01 UTC 2005

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Matt Mills wrote:

> Why we don't use Bittorrent for the distribution of the satellite data:
> 
> This is just where P2P and satellite data don't mesh. In order for the 
> program to work and not be incredibly frustrating and boring, the tiles 
> (imagery and elevation) have to be loaded at a somewhat speedy rate.

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Linux users trying to download updates from their distributors
have similar requirements - though far less of a latency constraint
of course.  I wonder if there is a P2P mechanism out there that
would do the right thing for this kind of application.
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