VCL over the Internet? Possible, even at loss of performance?

[starriol2]

it would be much, much slower than just cracking locally, regardless of how many gpus you had.

it's opencl middleware, so everything is sent to the compute nodes in real time. therefore you need a high bandwidth and low latency link.

if you want to cluster over the internet, you have to pre-distribute everything.

Yeah, like Seti@home or bitcoin.
So it COULD be done, only that VCL is not desgined to work that way, correct?
Do you know any alternative?
The only thing I can think of is cutting the dictionary / brute force attack via a central management station, that, taking into consideration how many nodes it has connected, their processing power, would distribute the works accordingly, monitor whether it receives a response from the nodes or not, sending the job to another node if one of them quits... now that I think about it, it doens't sound THAT hard to code myself...