BigSee
Gnutella & WebSpiders
www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=264&am...
Notes
Looking for a new way to surf the Gnutella network - a P2P community sharing network (www.gnutella.com) - Gregory Bray decided to use a web spider, as a means of collecting information from each node, in order to create a map of the network and gather statistics without changing the Gnutella protocol. After the web spider downloads all the information it can find, a simple parser creates the statistics and outputs the data file in a graph using aiSee Graph Layout Software (www.aisee.com). As the author explains: "So far the largest data set I have collected was about 80,000 nodes in half an hour (...) way more than the 10 or 20 thousand that the common user can see".
Gnutella & WebSpiders
www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=264&am...
Notes
Looking for a new way to surf the Gnutella network - a P2P community sharing network (www.gnutella.com) - Gregory Bray decided to use a web spider, as a means of collecting information from each node, in order to create a map of the network and gather statistics without changing the Gnutella protocol. After the web spider downloads all the information it can find, a simple parser creates the statistics and outputs the data file in a graph using aiSee Graph Layout Software (www.aisee.com). As the author explains: "So far the largest data set I have collected was about 80,000 nodes in half an hour (...) way more than the 10 or 20 thousand that the common user can see".