Carnegie Mellon Why p2p? Scaling: Create system whose capacity grows with of clients-automatically Self-managing This aspect attractive for corporate/datacenter needs e.g., Amazons 100,000-ish machines, google's 300k+ Harness lots of"spare" capacity at end-hosts Eliminate centralization Robust to failures etc Robust to censorship, politics legislation?? Create apps/services without having huge resources4 Why p2p? • Scaling: Create system whose capacity grows with # of clients - automatically! • Self-managing – This aspect attractive for corporate/datacenter needs – e.g., Amazon’s 100,000-ish machines, google’s 300k+ • Harness lots of “spare” capacity at end-hosts • Eliminate centralization – Robust to failures, etc. – Robust to censorship, politics & legislation?? – Create apps/services without having huge resources