It&#39;s great to see this project getting off the ground!<br><br>Our group is very interested in this idea. We have been working with wide-area VM appliance Condor pools for a couple of years and have developed a peer-to-peer virtual network (IP-over-P2P, or IPOP) that supports decentralized NAT traversal with techniques including hole-punching and proxying. We&#39;ve found this to be very useful to facilitate the deployment of ad-hoc wide-area Condor pools/flocks where nodes are increasingly behind NATs. The IPOP code is also open source and user level (though it currently uses a tap device), so I thought this would be of interest to the list. Here are some pointers for more information (and software):<br>
<br><a href="http://grid-appliance.org">http://grid-appliance.org</a><br>
<a href="http://ipop-project.org">http://ipop-project.org</a> <br><br>We&#39;re starting a collaboration with
the Condor group on a particular application of this virtual infrastructure for
computer architecture simulation (<a href="http://archer-project.org">http://archer-project.org</a>); hopefully sharing our experience with this system can benefit nightlife and vice-versa. <br><br>Bests,<br>--rf<br><br>
-- <br>Dr. Renato J. Figueiredo<br>Associate Professor<br>ACIS Lab / Electrical and Computer Engineering<br>University of Florida<br><a href="http://byron.acis.ufl.edu">http://byron.acis.ufl.edu</a><br>ph: 352-392-6430