Why xwch

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Why would I use XWCH?

XWCH is easy to deploy and use

Would you like to take benefit of the unused capacity of the PC's in your organization? Or maybe you have tried and given up since the software was too difficult to install and use? With XWCH, distributed computing is made easy. The worker node software can be deployed simply by using an installer (available for Microsoft Windows and major Linux distributions). Job submission can be done through a simple web page. And for programmers, there are examples available.

XWCH is efficient

Many projects like BOINC have sprung up to implement the idea of voluntary computing or global computing. However, they are most based on a simple client-server model where one server distributes work packages to a number of worker nodes. In XWCH, the worker nodes can communicate with each other directly or though a warehouse module. XWCH does not limit the programmer to use a single task as a work package, instead it supports parallel and distributed applications that can consist of many tasks.

XWCH is safe

For improved security, it is possible to run the worker nodes in a virtual machine. In this case, the worker software has no access to any of the data of the "host machine", i.e. the computer running the virtual machine.