Coral P2P Cache Enters Public Beta

Eloquence writes "infoAnarchy reports that Coral, a peer-to-peer webcaching system, has gone into public beta. Currently the Coral node network is hosted on Planet-Lab, a large scale distributed research network of 400 servers. You can use Coral right now by appending "nyud.net:8090" to a hostname. View Slashdot through Coral. Is this the end of the Slashdot effect?"

Slashdotted already

[Rexz]

Just kidding.

Anyone see the irony?

[bigberk]

Of, well, slashdoting the solution to slashdotting? Really cool idea though. Nice!

Re:Slashdotted already

[jelevy01]

> Just kidding.
yea, but its true :)

invalidate

[Anonymous Coward]

except the cache doesn't contain this post...yet

Dear Lord

[over_exposed]

I hope this isn't the end of the /. effect! What would we do w/o webservers crashing under tremendous loads?!? WE NEED the /. effect! I hope this technology crashes and burns...

Then again it might not be so bad....

self-referential slashdotting

[Shaheen]

so it's like this... people click on a link on slashdot, which gets farmed out to the p2p network to get the cached copy, but there's so many people clicking the link to get the cached copy that they are only slashdotting their own computers since they are all part of the p2p network too! now we can all collectively feel the slashdot effect!

oh, first post?

In case Coral gets slashdotted

[Rushuru]

In case Coral gets slashdotted, use this mirror [slashdot.org] to view slashdot

Oh great

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh great, the /. effect hits the Coral reefs. Environment, watch out.

Stupid story submitter... :-)

[Jugalator]

To save their bandwidth, you should've linked to their mirror!
http://www.nyud.net.nyud.net:8090 [nyud.net]

Oooh! Graphs!

[shish]

Pretty picture :)

http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/stats/

Doesn't give a usable time scale though; it has "HTTP requests", but not "per second" / "per minute" or anything :(

Re:Stupid story submitter... :-)

[interiot]

In fact, it lets you specify port numbers as well, so you can use the mirror-of-the-mirror too:

http://www.nyud.net.nyud.net.8090.nyud.net:8090/ [nyud.net]

Or the mirror-of-the-mirror-of-the-mirror:

http://www.nyud.net.nyud.net.8090.nyud.net.8090.ny ud.net:8090/ [nyud.net]

They should have posted THAT link to slashdot to see how well the system faired.

doesn't work with www.fyr.com.nyud.net:8090

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, it does and it doesn't. If you hit www.fyr.com.nyud.net:8090 and click Random, you get the first image. But after that... same image, over and over again. You have to explicitly select another image, or forget it.