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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_2_peer

Look at the 2 images on the right :) Seti@Home nodes connect only to the main server. They never see or hear anything about other nodes either. If the servers died the network would die.

But I second the Folding@Home prompting - a great cause!




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