Invisible wrote:
> Granted I haven't read the detailed documentation. But it looks like you 
> can put together an AMI and list it on Amazon's website with "hey, you 
> can run this thing for $2/hour". 

Yes. Which might be worthwhile if that's how you're selling software you 
can't get anywhere else.

> If you wanted to be able to submit renders from your PC and have them 
> automatically run, you'd have to have an instance constantly running, 
> waiting for work to be submitted. 

Huh? No. You start the AMI when you're ready to render something, and shut 
it down when it's finished. That's the point.

If you're automating it (or, rather, the way *I* automated it), the software 
on your desktop creates an S3 bucket with a name based on your Amazon ID, it 
copies the files up to it, it launches the AMI passing in your credentials, 
the AMI starts up and looks at the credentials and copies down the jobs, 
renders them, and puts the result back on S3 and shuts down.  When all the 
instances have shut down, the software on your desktop copies the results 
from S3 back to your machine.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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