Coral Content Distribution Network

One of the goals of the system is the Coral avoiding hot spots in the network. This could be volunteers who are afraid of peak loads, prevent them from using the software and thereby to contribute to the network. To achieve this requires a novel technique called Coral a distributed sloppy hash table ( DSHT ) thereby generating a self-organizing network of nodes, the contents refer each other to prevent connections to distant or loaded servers.

The project is in a public beta since March 2004. During this phase, the Coral network on PlanetLab, a large distributed network of researchers around 400 servers, controlled instead by outsiders and volunteers. Of the 400 servers of PlanetLab are currently around 260 part of the Coral network. The source code of Coral is freely available under the GNU GPL.