Re: [equinox-dev] [prov] Participation opportunity

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pascal,

Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> > - Multi-threaded downloads using ECF
> >     
>       What do you have in mind here that is different from what we already
> have in today?
>   

We currently are not using multiple threads to download different 
sections of a single (large) file...e.g. thread 1:  byte 1-5M, thread 2: 
byte 5M+1 to end.  ECF has the API to do this (via 
IFileRangeSpecification) but I don't think it's yet being used.

For relatively high bandwidth networks such an approach would be 
useful.  It would also be useful to be able to configure things like # 
of threads per file/size of block.  Basically adding download strategies 
as discussed last fall, and UI to configure.

Scott