Introducing Peer-to-Peer Computing

Peer-to-peer computing is a term that has gained a lot of popularity in recent times. Today, organizations and businesses are increasingly depending on collaboration between individuals and groups to perform essential tasks. As a result, collaboration has become more essential at an individual level because these applications form more ad hoc online groups for business, entertainment, and cultural purposes.

Peer-to-peer computing essentially is a set of networked computers that rely on the computing power and bandwidth of the individual computers on the network as opposed to the traditional approach of relying on a smaller number of more powerful server computers on the network. A computer connected to a P2P ...

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