SAN JOSE -- Hoping to pave the way towards a new peer-to-peer computing model, Intel Corp. officials here today urged the industry to cooperate in order to reach this emerging paradigm.
"The concept of peer-to-peer computing is a new wave of computing," said Craig Barrett, president and chief executive officer of Intel, in the opening keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) event this morning.
"We have to reach a new level of working together to make peer-to-peer computing happen," Barrett said in the keynote speech. "We have to develop standard building blocks and open interfaces to accelerate the development of peer-to-peer computing."
In his speech, Barrett describe peer-to-peer computing as a collection of different--and incompatible--systems and networks running applications in businesses or other environments.
Other examples include new, compute-intensive applications on the Web. "Napster is the best example of peer-to-peer computing," said Barrett, referring to the popular online music outlet.
One of the problems driving these new applications is a lack of standards, which, in turn, could stunt the growth of businesses as a whole.
"We as an organization have to develop common protocols, ease-of-use, and standards," he said. "We have to develop standard building blocks from a hardware standpoint. We have to develop standard building blocks from a wireless standpoint. We have to develop standard building blocks from a communications standpoint."
