A team of Israeli researchers have created a new map of the Internet that reveals the worldwide network in more detail than ever before. “The Internet evolves in a distributed manner, and therefore its structure is unknown,” Shai Carmi, a physicist at Bar-Ilan University who participated in the research, told TechNewsWorld. “The goal of this project was to get a better understanding.” Rather than relying on a few large computers for analysis, as previous efforts have done, the project at Bar-Ilan instead used distributed computing.
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Mappers: The Internet Looks Like a Jellyfish
Posted by: Katherine Noyes June 27, 2007 02:27 PMA team of Israeli researchers have created a new map of the Internet that reveals the worldwide network in more detail than ever before. “The Internet evolves in a distributed manner, and therefore its structure is unknown,” Shai Carmi, a physicist at Bar-Ilan University who participated in the research, told TechNewsWorld. “The goal of this project was to get a better understanding.” Rather than relying on a few large computers for analysis, as previous efforts have done, the project at Bar-Ilan instead used distributed computing.