Yeah!
I want to have a farm of servers, each machine a linux one, with one
processor (pentium, K5, K6, 486, etc), 32MB and 10Base2 network card. 
Maybe 16 machines.  Every machine is working thru NFS, with a big buffer
on povray.
If I want to render a scene, I make each machine do just part of the
scene, telling povray to take from row n to m. If I want to render an
animation, each computer take a scene, renders it and continues with the
next in line.  A simple locking mechanism can handle which is the latest
scene being rendered.  Then when the fastest machine has ended
rendering, and are no more scenes to render, it starts assembling the
animation.

Maybe my idea is not as yours, but can be easily be implemented on the
web, so we got your idea.  I still don't got the money to do this, ie.
having a farm of machines needs a little budget.

Ivan Kocher
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Raymond Tant wrote:
> 
> Has anyone thought about using Distributed.nets approach to distributing
> the "movie" among thousands of computers already connected to the net?
> 
> http://distributed.net
> http://www.netten.net/~raytant
> 
> Just an idea.....

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