My university ran its render farm across idle workstations using the screensaver back in early 2000. Same concept.
And Apple has had simple distributed video encoding since 2005, so yes it is not new in computing, but it is still useful for the gap before a given task can fit comfortably on one machine
Psst, it is "innovative". /s
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And Apple has had simple distributed video encoding since 2005, so yes it is not new in computing, but it is still useful for the gap before a given task can fit comfortably on one machine