Distributed Peer-to-Peer Applications

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Directory

Compiled by Wolf Garbe [1]:

"When it comes to long term development, stable applications, competetive performance and user adoption the number of remaining projects is limited.

Examples of actively developed and widely used distributed/peer-to-peer applications:

Kademlia: Distributed Hash Table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kad... by Petar Maymounkov and David Mazières

Bittorrent: P2P File sharing protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit... by Bram Cohen

Tribler: Bittorrent client http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri...

SwarmPlayer: P2P Streaming http://swarmplayer.p2p-next.org/

Hola: Distributed CDN http://www.hola.org/about_hola.html

Freenet: peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fre... by Ian Clarke

RetroShare: decentralised communication platform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ret...

Thimbl: Distributed Microblogging www.thimbl.net/

Diaspora: Distributed Social Network http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia...

FAROO: Distributed Web Search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAROO by Wolf Garbe

Git: a distributed revision control and source code management http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git...

TOR: Distributed Anonymizer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor...

Bitcoin: Peer-to-peer digital currency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit... by Satoshi Nakamoto (Pseudonym https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satos...

BOINC: Grid Computing boinc.berkeley.edu/

Genetic Finance: Massively distributed evolutionary computation platform http://www.geneticfinance.com/

AllJoyn: Open source P2P software development framework https://www.alljoyn.org/about