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[Distributed Internet topology software] [Dime (disambiguation)] DIMES
(Distributed Internet Measurements and Simulations)[1] was a subproject of the
EVERGROW Integrated Project in the EU Information Society Technologies, Future
and Emerging Technologies programme. It studied the structure and topology of
the Internet to obtain map and annotate it with delay, loss and link capacity.
DIMES used measurements by software agents downloaded by volunteers and
installed on their privately owned machines. Once installed at the agent
operates at a very low rate so as to have minimal impact on the machine
performance and on its network connection. DIMES intended to explore
relationships between the data gathered on the Internet's growth with
geographical and socio-economic data, in particular for fast developing
countries, to see if they can provide a measure of economic development and
societal openness. The project published period maps at several aggregation
levels on the web.
[2007], over 12500 agents were installed by over 5500 users in about 95
nations, and in several hundreds of ASes. The project collected over 2.2
billion measurements.
** See also
- ETOMIC
- List of volunteer computing projects
- Network mapping
** References
[reflist]
** External links
- The DIMES home page (see https://web.archive.org/web/20050523235412/http://www.netdimes.org/)
- DIMES agent source code (see https://web.archive.org/web/20050512182743/http://www.netdimes.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/)
- Science Magazine: Data-Bots Chart the Internet (Subscription) (see https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.308.5723.813)
- Visualizing Internet Topology at a Macroscopic Scale - CAIDA (see http://www.caida.org/analysis/topology/as_core_network/)
- M-PASM (Multiple Perspectives of Autonomous System Mapping ) (see http://natural.optomatica.com/mpasm/default.html) [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517085500/http://natural.optomatica.com/mpasm/default.html ]
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