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Datacenter beside Your telco-POP (DYPOP) project explores the next steps in computing cluster hosting for networked services, such as interactive Web application and CDN. On the future internet, contrary to the Internet end-to-end property, end-system effort is able to offload. Because, routers and switches inside network will acquire more computing resources able to provide network users not only operators. The fundamental idea of DYPOP is a small server cluster is co-located on every telco point of presence (POP) aggregating subscriber’s access links, such as, DSL and FTTH. This many small clusters composes a big distributed computing system having small delay between client and server. A reliable service is expected due to well managed telco-POP differ from unreliable P2P nodes in subscribers' home. Further, if one CPU core is provided to each subscriber, tremendous computing resources is emerged, e.g., FTTH subscriber in Japan reaches 20 millions. This project focuses on the development of three key building blocks. First, resource discovery obtains computing resource information of network internal in order for composition of services offloaded from end systems. Second, scalable federation among the small POP clusters provides a big distributed computing system. Finally, pairing between POP clusters and home node sharing the same access facilitates to offload these efforts onto each other in an efficient manner.