I wouldn't have recommended it if it were an annoying ad-filled warez host! Using this, you could host the file on your personal computer and home internet connection, and still serve it to the world with bandwidth to spare.
Hazem On Sep 27, 12:14 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Hazem <hazem.biqa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'd like to draw you attention to > > CoBlitz:http://codeen.cs.princeton.edu/coblitz/ > > Its a cache proxy content distribution network for large files. > > This looks very cool. I went to the site worried that it would be > some annoying ad filled warez host, but in fact it looks extremely > professional. There "access restrictions" specifically exclude all > that stuff, and moreover, their content size restrictions (e.g., files > at most 20GB) are specifically waved for "for content hosted at US > Educational Sites", which Sage is. > > Very cool! > > > > > It works by prefixinghttp://coblitz.codeen.org/to the URL of the > > download file you want to serve, and CoBlitz will do the rest. For > > example, take one of Sage's less capable download mirrors, prefix it > > withhttp://coblitz.codeen.org/post this new link as the download > > link, and you have a new high-bandwidth mirror, for free! > > > Of course, there are other options for resource efficient P2P > > distribution, such BitTorrent and Dijjer, but these require a software > > installation on the part of the downloaders first, which is OK for > > many people, but not all. > > > Happy downloading, > > > Hazem > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
