CPU sharing?

[Micha_cg]

Hallo,

any idea will it work for VfR? Could be so great.

http://www.cpushare.com/

-Micha

[joe_b]

CPU sharing?

I've seen these types of things before, like SETI (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu) and all those other Berkeley projects. I have no idea how this works - but I'd say lets start getting Distributed / Network rendering before we shoot for anything beyond that

[Micha_cg]

CPU sharing?

Network rendering is great for now, but maybe the CPU share is good for the future. Could be an extraordinary feature of a render software.

If I could choose between I buy 10 computers or I use 1000 other computers, than ...

Here a quote from the Maxwell Forum with some more infos to this topic:

I e-mail them...

Here is their reply:

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:40:58AM +0100, donot_4get@yahoo.com wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm part of a large comunity of people that uses Maxwell (a
> rendering engine that requires "lots" computer power).
> http://www.maxwellrender.com/
>
> This software requires that every computer connected to the network
> have a Maxwell license so I imagine it wouldn't work here at
> www.cpushare.com or am I wrong?

It entirely depends on Maxwell terms. You should ask them. However if
this software isn't open source or if they're not willing to port
their software to CPUShare, there's no way to run maxwell on top of
CPUShare. The CPUShare API isn't transparent, the software require
some modifications to use the CPUShare API.

> Now, is it possible... or would you guys be interested in
> formulating a system that will allow or comunity to render trough
> internet?

Until now there's just one guy, me . And yes I would be greatly
interested to allow your community to render through the
internet. Rendering is one of the applications that should be very
suitable for CPUShare.

I'd be also cool to port povray distributed rendering on top of
CPUShare.
> Also, many people have more licenses than cpus... (I have 8 licenses
> and 99% of the time I'm only using 2) could there be a way to share
> the licenses so people with no license culd still share cpu power?

See above, I can't answer that.

Thanks!

[joe_b]

CPU sharing?

I'm not saying it will never happen - I'm just saying we have to worry about DR and NR before we move on to other things.

[Micha_cg]

CPU sharing?

This here seems to be a solution for networkrendering and rendering through the internet.

http://www.hamachi.cc/