i wonder if making 9p work better over high latency connections is even the right answer to the problem. the real problem is that the data your program wants to work on in miles away from you and transfering it all will suck. would it not be cool to have a way to teleport/migrate your process to a cpu server close to the data? i know, this is a crazy blue sky idea that has lots of problems on its own... but it poped up again when i read the "bring the computation to the data" point from the ospray talk. -- cinap