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| This is the website of the
second version of HyperCast from 2002. You find the current version at
http://www.hypercast.org |
 HyperCast
is software for overlay multicasting and peer-to-peer networking
for very large groups. The
HyperCast project
is a research effort that explores protocol mechanisms for peer-to-peer and multicast
networking.
The HyperCast project is supported
in part by the
National Science Foundation
under grant number ANI-9870336 and ANI-0085955. We acknowledge the support of Tower Technology's donation of the TowerJ
Java compiler.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or any other sponsor.
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FEATURES and
HIGHLIGHTS
 In local area experiments which involved 100 computers, the HyperCast
protocol
has built an
overlay with 10,000 members in less than 35 seconds.
The
HyperCast protocol has a
socket-style
API.
The
software has modules for monitoring a running overlay network.
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