Seeing as I use XOTcl on the server side, this might be interesting to people on this list.

What is the Ants project?

Ants is a generic system for running any kind of distributed code, intended to replace application-specific systems like the one used by SETI@home. The idea is to be able to write scripts with areas defined to be run on the Ants network. These script fragments can then communicate with the original script by passing messages. The server admin can specify which libraries scripts are allowed to load. In addition to that, by configuring the system and attaching more scripts to it, it can be a valuable system administration framework for both small and large networks.

http://people.fishpool.fi/~setok/ants/

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