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HP & Commodity Computing

Posted by Hemos on from the the-grid-network-cometh dept.

Handpaper writes "The BBC has a story about HPs SE3D lab's pilot scheme to provide raw rendering power for smaller studios and amateurs. A sample movie is available.. " Yes, the long fabled "grid computing" may arrive soon on a massive scale.

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  1. Grid-Computing? by fembots · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is this considered grid computing (which enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of a wide variety of geographically distributed computational resources)? All processing seems to come from one source, more like lease-computing?

    One of the articles mentioned "All the animators are independently funded to make their films.", but none mentioned the cost to use 1 unit (however it's calculated) of the processing power. How do animators justify the expenses to sponsors?

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