RealDeal opened this issue on Sep 19, 2004 ยท 7 posts
RealDeal posted Sun, 19 September 2004 at 12:40 AM
I've got a fairly powerful in-house renderfarm network setup, and was thinking about opening it up to public use. I'm pretty sure I can run Bryce Lightning and Vue RenderCow without legal complications, but if anyone has any insight I'd appreciate it. I've got some ridiculously powerful systems doing nothing meaningful about 80% of the time. Please give me your thoughts on this.
TobinLam posted Sun, 19 September 2004 at 1:24 AM
That would be so cool. I am off at college and all of my roommates have computers that don't do anything for a long time but any networks I try to set up get shutdown by the campus network.
draculaz posted Sun, 19 September 2004 at 1:53 AM
realdeal, i'd have your babies if you would :) Drac
Slakker posted Sun, 19 September 2004 at 2:43 AM
Why don't you just mail me one of the systems? I'll take good care of it, honest!
RealDeal posted Sun, 19 September 2004 at 3:52 PM
I'm still working on the legal issues, but it's looking do-able. a few technical details to get around sending tons of stuff over the internet for every frame rendered. Slakker, I said they were free 80% of the time...but I really, really need 'em the other 20%.
draculaz posted Sun, 19 September 2004 at 9:26 PM
bah, who needs men on mars and all that :P
Mahray posted Mon, 20 September 2004 at 12:52 AM
Sounds good, especially to my old computer :)
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