Re: [Condor-users] Condor as seti@home

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Do you see Condor being deployed in a seti@home/distributed.net way? I mean,
> desktop computers in the wild connecting back to a central server.

SETI@home lets you run a single program on a computer. Condor lets you run 
any program you want on a computer.

Granted, you can set it up so that Condor will run jobs as the nobody user 
(on Unix--there's something similar on Windows), so they are relatively 
safe. But as a random user in the world, why would I trust you to run any 
program you want on my computer?

It is easier to gain trust in a specific community rather than in entire world.

-alain