[rescue] Uses for home networks

[James Sharp]

> > Sun also has that grid engine thingy for diy distributed projects.
> >
> > For rendering, you can (it seems) get PovRay to work over a network.
> >
> > To tell you the truth, I have three machines that just play a little
> > early AI network war game. Send him to the game grid!
> >

I've been playing with Tachyon for distributed raytracing.
Unfortunately, its scene description files are not what you'd call
standard.  There's ways of converting povray files to Tachyon-digestible
files, but they're kind of ugly.

I've also started using a distributed version of bladeenc to chew through
MP3 encoding.

They all use LAM/MPI, which should build on just about any machine...

http://www.lam-mpi.org/