Аннотация:This work studies the possibility of using a widely adopted peer-to-peer
(P2P) data transmission protocol named BitTorrent for the purpose of building
a data storage and distribution system that would allow numerous institutions
to access vast unstructured volumes of scientic data. We discuss the practical
eciency of using this technology depending on the typical le sizes and readily
available software, the ratio of read and write operations, computational power
available at the tracker server, the number of mirrors and simultaneously connected
clients.