Most people familiar with BitTorrent assume that its primary appeal is to those who illegally share music, movies and other copyrighted works. While I have no doubt that is true, here is a great example of an enterprising IT staff harnessing BitTorrent for productive purposes.
INHOLLAND University used BitTorrent to distribute 3.5GB of patches to 6,500 workstations. That is over 22TB of data. It used to take them four days and over twenty-four servers to push out that much information. With BitTorrent? It took four hours and four servers.
That’s what I call thinking outside the box!
Source: ArsTechnica
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This has nothing to do with BitTorrent, which can be wonderful by the way. Just simply wanted to say good call on your Blu-ray recommendation. Obviously the HD would have been a rough investment.
Chris
March 13th, 2008