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Dear Lazyweb

Can you make a PVM3 compatible library that would:

• Communicate over TCP instead of UDP,
• use strong authentication and encryption and
• would tolerate large roundtrip times and packet loss.

Bonus points if it uses HTTP requests to be more firewall-resistant.

Ordinary PVM is completely useless over large, insecure and slow networks like the Internet. Also a standard library like that would simplify large distributed computing projects where nodes are scattered all over the world.

Thanks.