You must be doing something wrong... The Idea of connecting computers together and sharing render time is not new...  that much I know.....    there are render farms one can upload data to and get  back the results a short time later....   I was considering using them but I'm sure the cost will probably not be to my advantage..

I even thought of picking up discarted machine from the garbage, rehab them and make a render farm my self...     I'm a E technician but I never put together a render farm before.... 

Question is: Is lightning that type of software..  will it chop a render piece into chunks of data and distribute the pieces to the other machines... and get them back...

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