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my master thesis in computer science and I think this would be
a good opportunity to contributing to the open source
community. My supervisor at the university</span><span
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from what I have read so far this is one interesting project.</span><br>
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baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The scalability problems
caught my interest, in particular these tickets: #68, #235,
#444. I know that #68 has been solved by adding the
possibility to add several introducers to a grid. I want to
make a system that is independent from external services like
the introducer. A node should be able to join with the
assistance of an arbitrary node within the grid.</span><br>
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baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, the basic idea is
to remove the dependency of full-mesh and implement some kind
of a DHT solution.</span><br>
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some kind of locality in the solution. This could have
negatively impact on the uniform distribution but in large
global grids locality is a desirable property for achieving
good performance.</span><br>
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my knowledge in this area and if the implemented solution is
successful it will be contributed.</span><br>
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