Peer-to-peer

P2P redirects here. For the telecommunications term PTP, see Point-to-Point.P2P can also stand for Pay-to-play in gaming.

Networks, protocols and applications

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• network/protocol: list of applications using that network (operating system)

All networks and protocols are in alphabetical order except very similar applications which are listed in one entry with the most important one first, determining the place of this very similar applications in the list.

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• Applejuice network: Applejuice Client
• Avalanche
• BitTorrent network: ABC, Azureus, BitAnarch, BitComet, BitSpirit, BitTornado, BitTorrent, BitTorrent++, BitTorrent.Net, G3 Torrent, mlMac, MLDonkey, QTorrent, SimpleBT, Shareaza, TomatoTorrent (Mac OS X) http://sarwat.net/bittorrent/, TorrentStorm, µTorrent
• CAKE network: BirthdayCAKE the reference implementation of CAKE
• Direct Connect network: BCDC++, CZDC++, DC++, NeoModus Direct Connect, JavaDC, DCGUI-QT
• eDonkey network: aMule (Linux, Mac OS X, others), eDonkey2000, eMule, LMule, MindGem, MLDonkey, mlMac, Shareaza, xMule, iMesh Light, ed2k (eDonkey 2000 protocol)
• FastTrack protocol: giFT, Grokster, iMesh (and its variants stripped of adware including iMesh Light), Kazaa by Sharman Networks (and its variants stripped of adware including: Kazaa Lite, K++, Diet Kaza and CleanKazaa), KCeasy, Mammoth, MLDonkey, mlMac, Poisoned
• FotoSwap
• Freenet network: Entropy (on its own network), Freenet, Frost
• Gnutella network: Acquisition (Mac OS X), BearShare, BetBug, Cabos, CocoGnut (RISC OS) http://www.alpha-programming.co.uk/software/cocognut/, Gnucleus Grokster, iMesh, gtk-gnutella (Unix), Kiwi Alpha, LimeWire (Java), MLDonkey, mlMac, Morpheus, Phex Poisoned, Swapper, Shareaza, XoloX
• Gnutella2 network: Adagio, Caribou, Gnucleus, iMesh, Kiwi Alpha, MLDonkey, mlMac, Morpheus, Shareaza, TrustyFiles
• HyperCast http://www.cs.virginia.edu/hypercast
• Joltid PeerEnabler: Altnet, Bullguard, Joltid, Kazaa, Kazaa Lite
• Kad Network (using Kademila protocol): eMule, MindGem, MLDonkey
• LUSerNet (using LUSerNet protocol): LUSerNet
• MANOLITO/MP2P network: Blubster, Piolet, RockItNet
• Napster network: Napigator, OpenNap, WinMX
• Peercasting type networks: PeerCast, IceShare - P2P implementation of IceCast, Freecast
• LiveP2P type networks: CoolStreaming, Cybersky-TV
• WPNP network: WinMX
• other networks: Akamai, Alpine, ANts P2P, Ares Galaxy, Audiogalaxy network, Carracho, Chord, The Circle, Coral http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/, Dexter, Diet-Agents, EarthStation 5 network, Evernet, FileTopia, GNUnet, Grapevine, Groove, Hotwire, iFolderhttp://www.ifolder.com/, konspire2b, Madster/Aimster, MUTE, Napshare, OpenFT (Poisoned), P-Gridhttp://www.p-grid.org, IRC @find and XDCC, used by IRC clients including: mIRC and Trillian, JXTA, Peersites http://www.peersites.com, MojoNation, Mnet, Overnet network, Scour, Scribe, Skype, Solipsis a massively multi-participant virtual world, SongSpy network, Soulseek, SPIN, SpinXpress, SquidCam http://www.squidsoft.com, Swarmcast, WASTE, Warez P2P, Winny, AsagumoWeb, OpenExt, Tesla, soribada, fileswapping, XSC,

An earlier generation of peer-to-peer systems were called "metacomputing" or were classed as "middleware". These include: Legion, Globus, Condor, ByteTornado

Related Topics:
Legion - Globus - Condor - ByteTornado

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Multi-network applications

Format: application (networks/protocols) (operating systems) (open source?)

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• eMule (Edonkey Network, Kad Network) (Microsoft Windows, Linux) (open source)
• aMule (EDonkey network) (Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows and Solaris Operating Environment) (open source)
• Epicea (Epicea, BitTorrent, Edonkey Network, Overnet, FastTrack, Gnutella) (Microsoft Windows) (?)
• GiFT (own OpenFT protocol, and with plugins - FastTrack, eDonkey and Gnutella) (open source)
• xfactor (uses GiFT) (Mac OS X) (?)
• Gnucleus (Gnutella, Gnutella2) (Microsoft Windows) (open source)
• Hydranode (eDonkey2000) (Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) (?)
• iMesh (Fasttrack, Edonkey Network, Gnutella, Gnutella2) (Microsoft Windows) (?)
• Kazaa (FastTrack, Joltid PeerEnabler) (Microsoft Windows) (closed source)
• Kazaa Lite (FastTrack, Joltid PeerEnabler) (Microsoft Windows) (closed source)
• KCeasy (Gnutella, Ares, giFT) (?)
• Kiwi Alpha (Gnutella, Gnutella2) (Microsoft Windows) (?)
• MindGem (Edonkey Network, Kademlia) (?)
• MLDonkey (BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack, Gnutella, Gnutella2, Kademlia) (Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) (open source)
• mlMac (BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack, Gnutella, Gnutella2) (?)
• Morpheus (Gnutella, Gnutella2)(Microsoft Windows) (closed source)
• Poisoned (FastTrack, Gnutella, Ares, OpenFT, giftd) (Max OS X) (?)
• Shareaza (BitTorrent, eDonkey, Gnutella, Gnutella2) (Microsoft Windows) (open source)
• WinMX (Napster, WPNP) (Microsoft Windows) (closed source)
• XNap (OpenNAP, GiFT, Limewire, Overnet, ICQ, IRC) (Java) (open source)
• Zultrax (Gnutella, ZEPP) (?)