Its just never really been a problem, ssh'ing into remote boxes has literally no cost (I have auto complete hostnames, and sshkey pairs.) for processes taking

Its just never really been a problem, ssh'ing into remote boxes has literally no cost (I have auto complete hostnames, and sshkey pairs.) for processes taking longer than a day normally need something like screen, however thats so rare, most things are run inside another execution environment(jenkins, render manager, grid engine/mesos etc)