Hi

I'd like to write a screen saver that is like SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the "searching for ever larger prime numbers" screen savers. That is to allow a large problem to be distributed to anybody who runs the screen saver.

The way I see this happening is that one computer acts as a server and gives out small tasks to clients (i.e. the screen savers) and then recieves the results.

My question is this (as I am new to network programming).

Is sockets the way to do this? If not, what "keywords" should I search on or what articles should I read?

Also, any sample code, ideas, suggestions welcome.

Thank you.

Graham