-- I apologize if you receive this message more than once Dear list,
I'm am very happy to announce the first release of naclgrid, a light desktop grid engine written in jocaml and relying ocsigen. Basically, it's a server where ++ you can upload tasks, tasks being shared libraries that follow some basic rules. In particular tasks have two functions, one returning a list of subtasks and another one that would gather the results. They also refer to a worker for this specific task. ++ you can participate to queued tasks simply by browsing a webpage. When you do so, you download an atomic task and a worker, which is a 'google native client' binary. It's a standard C program compiled for the google native client. Google native client is a plugin for your browser that performs static analysis on your (native) library before running it in a sandbox: thus you get both safety and close-to-native speed in a browser. When the subtask is done another task is downloaded and so on .. The package embeds two examples, one based on a knn and the other one being some md5 distributed computation. Compared to existing solution (Boinc ..), naclgrid does not require to install a specialized rich client and provides strong safety features : the worker can't compromise your system (according to google ..). Thus you get a multi task and very flexible desktop grid. I've build a website for this software : www.themipsfactory.com. There is a demo video and of course the source code of naclgrid (its GPL v3). It's a bit tricky to install as one has to build ocsigen with jocaml but it should run fine. I'm writing documentation too. There is also a google group, naclgrid-dev (http://groups.google.fr/group/naclgrid-dev), for all the questions regarding the installation and for suggestions. If you have any remarks, both on functionality and style, do not hesitate! And if you know how I can package it in a better way, please tell me! All best! William
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