I gave this talk at a postgraduate reading weekend in Kingussie. It was heavily based on a previous talk I gave, though with more theory and fewer practical examples of existing systems. You can download PDF copies of the talk below.
As part of our first year as PhD students in St Andrews we have to create a poster for presentation within the school. This poster, formed based on what I’d been reading at the time, discusses the problems of search in distributed systems – why it is difficult, and the various methods for overcoming it.
Search over P2P Poster
You can get a PDF copy of the poster here. I won a best poster for this prize in a school poster session.
I recently gave a talk about the various methods and difficulties of searching over data stored in peer-to-peer systems. You can get PDF copies of it, if you’re interested.
The main focus of the talk was the difference between early peer-to-peer systems such as Gnutella and more recent systems such as PIER which use distributed hash table overlays to achieve a more scalable search capability.