Friday, April 10, 2009

The challenge data is available via bittorrent!

The data is big - 420 MB - so we have released it via bittorrent. The torrent is here. Please seed! The data will also be made available on the web site.

If you - as I imagine many of you are - were born before 1984 or so, you may never have heard of the bittorrent protocol. You can learn more about the protocol here. In general, it is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol where each person downloading the data makes it available to other peers to download concurrently. After the file is successfully downloaded, you many continue to make the data available (please do!), known as "seeding". This distributed approach makes the distribution of large amounts of data fast, efficient, and reliable.

The the µTorrent and Vuze clients are both quite good.

2 comments:

  1. please i need labelled data if any one has it. Torrent has no seeder

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