> However, I'm also thinking longer term - towards the FastOS project > where users aren't going to necessarily want to fire up a whole > 'environment' such as Inferno or Drawterm just to execute an > application on the cluster -- particularly if that application isn't > graphical.
i think i don't understand your problem, as drawterm runs on the host, not the client. if you had one cpuserver, you could cpu into the target nodes without starting very much on them. why won't that work? if you don't need to copy files around, telnet is even lighter weight. - erik