alt Hacker NewsIt would be so incredibly cool if we finally had an accessible consumer-accessible way to turn a network of computers on a network into a supercomputer. A household has a child who gets into 3D artwork and wants to render something? People can opt their tablets, phones, laptops, whatever to crunch out some frames overnight while not being used.
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chasil • today at 4:51 PM
I'm not comfortable giving away time and power consumption on a machine that I own.
I would definitely opt out.
Is Apple going to compensate the owners?
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botanrice • today at 2:30 PM
until you get a teen obsessed with 3d rendering then they're up all night finding a way to convert manga into 3d scenes and your old laptop is running 100% cpu trying to keep up. xDD
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There is a startup working on this called Distributive I used to work for - their compute nodes are based on js/wasm runtimes so you just need a web browser to turn a device into a compute node...