It would be so incredibly cool if we finally had an accessible consumer-accessible way to turn a network of computers on a network into a supercomputer. A household has a child who gets into 3D artwork and wants to render something? People can opt their tablets, phones, laptops, whatever to crunch out some frames overnight while not being used.

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willquack 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is a startup working on this called Distributive I used to work for - their compute nodes are based on js/wasm runtimes so you just need a web browser to turn a device into a compute node...

	▲	reachableceo 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Didn’t someone make a k8s worker in JavaScript a few months back?

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chasil 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm not comfortable giving away time and power consumption on a machine that I own.

I would definitely opt out.

Is Apple going to compensate the owners?

	▲	bee_rider 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe users could generate compute credits by taking tasks, and cash them in by submitting them.

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botanrice 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

until you get a teen obsessed with 3d rendering then they're up all night finding a way to convert manga into 3d scenes and your old laptop is running 100% cpu trying to keep up. xDD

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lynndotpy 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The idealized version of this in my mind has a consent-first interface which makes it easy to set boundaries and limits and wouldn't burn out the machine as a default

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twosdai 5 hours ago | parent [-]

This is basically what seti and the computing @home projects did. Just doesn't get as much support outside of hobbiest and institutions.

	▲	lynndotpy 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes! I remember it being a bit difficult and confusing to set up when I was 10 or so. And of course, you can't use it on e.g. your gaming consoles or phones, and AFAIK you can't set up BOINC for personal use (e.g. rendering your own blender projects on all your machines). (That said, Blender itself does provide good tooling here for Blender specifically).