Faster than BitTorrent?

**Jorge** · April 10th, 2007, 03:50 PM

New P2P system to be unveiled tomorrow configured to share not only identical files, but also similar ones.

Called Similarity-Enhanced Transfer (SET), David G Andersen, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, and Michael Kaminsky of Intel Research Pittsburgh, have designed a new P2P protocol they claim could significantly increase download speeds because it is configured to share not only identical files, but also similar ones.

By identifying relevant chunks of files similar to a desired file, the researchers claim SET greatly increases the number of potenti

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**Jorge** · April 11th, 2007, 07:30 AM

Computer researchers report dramatic accelerations in P2P file sharing using a protocol that hunts down similar files and grabs the pieces that are identical. (Digg and comment this)

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**silentscream** · April 11th, 2007, 09:18 AM

that would be really clever use of p2p for those crappy slow torrents out there

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**thakila** · April 11th, 2007, 11:28 AM

what is the program called can some one post a download link or sumthing

**testicles** · April 11th, 2007, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by silentscream

that would be really clever use of p2p for those crappy slow torrents out there

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Excellent. My computer isn't locked on stupid anymore. F'ing shift button.

I was going to say that as files are simply structured clusters of numbers there is no good reason why you shouldn't be able to substitute other file's numbers if you have the structure key for the original file.

It's cool to see innovation in p2p. It's been a while.

**meyou123** · April 11th, 2007, 08:23 PM

I am glad they have come up with this....more speed is always welcome in p2p....though I think the media mafia will have a heart attack over it! LOL!

**mountain_rage** · April 11th, 2007, 08:53 PM

I wonder how long it will take for a college student to incorporate this into one of the current file sharing systems. For some reason I am thinking shareaza will be the first to utilize this kind of technology.

**meyou123** · April 12th, 2007, 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by mountain_rage

I wonder how long it will take for a college student to incorporate this into one of the current file sharing systems. For some reason I am thinking shareaza will be the first to utilize this kind of technology.

Well I was thinking that if this could be successfully applied to bit torrent UPLOADS and increase them, that may be a big hurdle on private torrent sites that people could finally overcome having to seed for days on end just because they got one file downloaded.

It would be well worth it if it worked...but I don't know if it would increase upload speeds on torrents or not.

**DigitalJunkie** · April 12th, 2007, 01:29 AM

If you have Symmetrical instead of Asymmetrical DSL that should help.

**Krell** · February 7th, 2008, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by thakila

what is the program called can some one post a download link or sumthing

If you ever PM me for an invite again, or anyone else, I'm gonna kick your ass right out of the ballpark!

As for the topic, if you can grep and seed similiar files, then it could be used to greatly deter filesharing by filtering in the same way.

Nice thinking you carnagie melon heads.

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