Seti@Home kind of frameworks

Are there any client-server frameworks similar to SETI available ?

I have such client-server model, where volunteers sign up as client (agent or node, call it whatever) and give their idle computing resources.

So I will need to write a framework to distribute and track the work-units (or jobs) given to agents.

Is there any such FW available which i could go for. Then I save time to write the job processing logic etc.

Further, I hope the framework will also support the OS compatibility issues, agent binaries updates etc.

Pl. give any other suggestions in general on such distributed computing project you think I should i开发者_JS百科nvestigate.

Look at BOINC, which is a general framework for handling SETI style stuff.

Edit to expand: in fact, iirc BOINC is a spinoff of SETI. It'll probably handle all of your requirements.