Distributed render farm?

[mmmdreg]

I was wondering if it is possible (I don't mean likely, but like "can be done") to use people's computers like SETI and say get people to download a fat screensaver program has the specifics needed for rendering stuff so it can only be used in the screensaver...then in a movie or something, people with fast internet and fast computers could be assigned a few frames each which would take a bit off the time needed by the business doing it...sound alright?

[firewire2001]

yeah.. its possible, but the problem now is creating an interface -- final cut pro and premiere dont have any render plugins or anything allowing you to do something like that

theoretically its possible... however, most companies willing to invest a good amont of money on doing this type of project would probably just like to purchase or rent dedicated computers for a project like this -- companies that run programs that have render plugins...

[mymemory]

Let me translate it in to spanish.

You mean to do a network rendering using the computers connected to the internet...

I bet you that is not a new idea but in an idea that I haven't heard before.

The easiest way to do that is if Apple lunch a system to do network render with the Apple computers connected to the internet, using a special protocol. That would lunch Apple sales but may be I would get less computers fro ma "Mac render farm", but for amateurs would be a very good solution.

I wouldn't have any problem letting my computer connected to the net during the night to do some ones elses work.