Peers

Peers is a distributed programming environment for bottom-up development of P2P systems. The project is developed in the Viral Communications research group at the MIT Media Laboratory.

Code Availability

Peers is available under the GNU General Public License. The current release is 0.20050929.

Distribution tarballs

peers-0.20050929.tar.gz 214K [tar.gz]
peers-0.20050724.tar.gz 208K [tar.gz]

CVS Access

The latest peers source code is accessible through anonymous CVS. You can retrieve it with:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@aphex.media.mit.edu:/var/cvsroot-public get peers

Documentation

The complete documentation is available online in the here.

Documentation tarballs:
peers-doc-0.20050929.tar.gz 772K [tar.gz]
peers-doc-0.20050724.tar.gz 729K [tar.gz]

Related Presentations

Dimitris Vyzovitis, "Programmable Peer-to-Peer Systems". [pdf]
Presented at the 3rd CFP meeting in Cambridge, UK, June 30, 2005.

Portability

The native platform for Peers is GNU/Linux. However Peers uses calls available in the POSIX subset supported by cygwin, so it should be easy to port to MacOSX and Windows. Changyong Niu has written a document on how to compile peers on windows.

Contact Information

The Peers public mailing list is peers-at-media.mit.edu. You can subscribe to the list at the Media Lab list server.