Osprey Project Overview
Osprey is a peer-to-peer enabled content distribution system. A metadata management system for software and document collections enables local and distributed searching of materials. Items are available for download directly via URL or indirectly via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol.
Two components exist: the Osprey web application and permaseed (permanent seed). The web application includes metadata management for finding and exploring available content, as well as a BitTorrent tracker. The latter is a BitTorrent server application, which links content on a server to a BitTorrent swarm. Permaseed addresses the typical transience of BitTorrent file distribution by providing a daemonized service that functions more like a server than a BitTorrent client.
Key features:
- BitTorrent application suitable for large-scale content providers
- Permanent seeding; a stable and reliable delivery mechanism
- Standards-compliant metadata for flexible, rich descriptive information
- Distributed search function for searching across multiple Osprey-driven sites
- RSS and Atom feeds
- Designed for load-balancing, caching, and high availability in an enterprise environment
