This is an area of active investigation by people from CERN, Univ. of Extremadura, and other places. Currently there are some technical issues that make it not quite feasible, but it's probably the wave of the future.
Jeremy Cowles wrote: > BOINC would be much friendlier to develop for if it had a guaranteed runtime > environment (for example, all client's run Linux with Python 2.6 > installed). Has anyone considered sending an extremely lightweight VM to the > client? > I guess you would need some method of auto-configuration, so you could > specify what components each project needed and automatically setup the > environment accordingly. > I'm not proposing anything, just curious. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
