I'm CCing this to the Beowulf mailing list, as there are people there who will know a lot more about this then me.
For the benifit of the Beowulf people: On the Freenet mailing list (see www.freenetproject.org if you're unfamiler with Freenet), we're talking about doing a research project involving Freenet, particularly doing simulations of the network. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Clarke" <[email protected]> To: <devl at freenetproject.org> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] Looking for a research project? >On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:21:32PM -0700, Timm Murray wrote: >> Anyone else around here an armchair Chaos Theorist (or even a real Chaos >> Theorist)? If the simulations don't incorperate the size-bias they will be >> fately flawed. > >It depends what you are using the simulations for. We have primarily >used them to test the scalability of the general system, I don't think >the size bias would affect this, it will really effect document's >longevity in the system, which we haven't measured yet. > >> Freenet is a natural system, and thus any simuations are >> susceptable to the Butterfly Effect. > >Not all complex systems are chaotic. I disagree that Freenet is a >chaotic system since it doesn't seem to be particularly reliant on the >initial configuration of the network (a chaotic system would be). > >> Freenet is a natural system, and thus any simuations are
