You ’d consider that cave in how pervasive the internet is , we ’d be stick with the profound computer architecture it uses : servers that many equipment connect to for their information fix . But a squad of Cambridge University scientist wants to shake things up — and remove host altogether .
A project named Pursuitaims to make the cyberspace quicker , safe and more social by implementing a completely new computer architecture . The arrangement does forth with the pauperization for electronic computer to connect directly to server , instead having individual information processing system being able to copy and re - publish content on receipt . That would set aside other electronic computer to access code data — or , at least , fragments of datum — from many localisation at once .
If that sound like compeer - to - peer share-out , it ’s because it is . But the difference here is that it would be rolled out on a Brobdingnagian , unprecedented exfoliation : it would be net - wide . Dirk Trossen , one of the researchers from the University of Cambridge Computer Lab , explains why that ’s a good thing :
“ Our arrangement focuses on the way in which society itself uses the internet to get time lag of that capacity . It puts information first . One colleague asked me how , using this architecture , you would get to the host . The answer is : you do n’t . The only reasonableness we care about connection addresses and servers now is because the people who designed the connection separate us that we involve to . What we are really after is message and selective information . ”
Essentially , the thought is to transfer the concept of the universal resource locator from the internet . In fact , the researchers explain that online searches would stop expect for URLs ( Uniform Resource Locators ) and start depend for URIs ( Uniform Resource Identifiers ) . URIs , then , specify where data is — and where to go for find it — rather than being the individual percentage point of call . Trossen explains what that means for the substance abuser :
“ Under our system , if someone near you had already watch [ a ] video or show , then in the course of beget it their computer or platform would republish the content . That would enable you to get the content from their connection , as well as from the original waiter … Widely used content that million of people require would end up being widely diffused across the connection . Everyone who has republish the content could give you some , or all of it . So essentially we are taking dedicated server out of the par . ”
The effect ? speeding , efficiency , and reliability , with no central server to buckle under the load of demand . true , it ’s a very sheer intention — but if it can be pull off , it could radically change our experience of the internet . [ PursuitviaPhysOrg ]
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