[42414] in Cypherpunks
Re: idle CPU markets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephan Somogyi)
Fri Oct 27 01:54:47 1995
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 22:52:52 -0700
To: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>, Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
From: Stephan Somogyi <somogyi@digmedia.com>
At 18:45 26.10.95, Wei Dai wrote:
> What other problems would benefit from easy access to lots of
> distributed CPU cycles?
It would be within the capability of smaller animation houses to render
a feature length computer-animated film at high quality without
significant capital equipment expenditure or excessive rental costs.
If the granularity of transaction is per-frame (not unreasonable for a
night's worth of cycles), the evil participant problem is avoidable
since each frame would have to be inspected by a person, and payment
for a correct frame approved by same, before it's integrated into the
film.
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Stephan Somogyi Senior Editor Digital Media
