peer-to-peer - translation to russian
![[[SETI@home]] was established in 1999](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SETI@home Multi-Beam screensaver.png?width=200 "[[SETI@home]] was established in 1999")
![Overlay network diagram for a '''structured P2P network''', using a [[distributed hash table]] (DHT) to identify and locate nodes/resources](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Structured (DHT) peer-to-peer network diagram.png?width=200 "Overlay network diagram for a '''structured P2P network''', using a [[distributed hash table]] (DHT) to identify and locate nodes/resources")
![[[Torrent file]] connect peers](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Torrent peers.png?width=200 "[[Torrent file]] connect peers")
![seed]] (large system at the bottom), the pieces are individually transferred from client to client. The original seeder only needs to send out one copy of the file for all the clients to receive a copy.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Torrentcomp small.gif?width=200 "seed]] (large system at the bottom), the pieces are individually transferred from client to client. The original seeder only needs to send out one copy of the file for all the clients to receive a copy.")
![Search results for the query "[[software libre]]", using [[YaCy]] a free [[distributed search engine]] that runs on a peer-to-peer network instead of making requests to centralized index servers (like [[Google]], [[Yahoo]], and other corporate search engines)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yacy-resultados.png?width=200 "Search results for the query \"[[software libre]]\", using [[YaCy]] a free [[distributed search engine]] that runs on a peer-to-peer network instead of making requests to centralized index servers (like [[Google]], [[Yahoo]], and other corporate search engines)")
Definition
Wikipedia
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes.
Peers make a portion of their resources, such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth, directly available to other network participants, without the need for central coordination by servers or stable hosts. Peers are both suppliers and consumers of resources, in contrast to the traditional client–server model in which the consumption and supply of resources are divided.
While P2P systems had previously been used in many application domains, the architecture was popularized by the file sharing system Napster, originally released in 1999. The concept has inspired new structures and philosophies in many areas of human interaction. In such social contexts, peer-to-peer as a meme refers to the egalitarian social networking that has emerged throughout society, enabled by Internet technologies in general.
