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Re:Show HN: Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without... by Turing_Machine on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @12:20PM (#32839375)
Are you also planning to offer other GPU-intensive tasks (e.g., Stable Diffusion)? Seems like an obvious expansion.
Re:Show HN: Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without... by tehsauce on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @12:37PM (#32839639)
I am currently building this! You can try it out right now at https://computerender.com
Re:Show HN: Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without... by Turing_Machine on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @12:52PM (#32839865)
Seems to work pretty well! Thanks!
Re:Show HN: Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without... by dasokol112358 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @01:14PM (#32840176)
It's on our long-term roadmap to offer other services such as scientific computing, monte carlo simulation, AI, etc. One issue that arises from Deep Learning tasks such as stable diffusion is that the various devices in the network need to communicate periodically, especially when training models, which presents problems when the devices are scattered across the globe.
Re:Show HN: Rentaflop – Render your Blender projects without... by Turing_Machine on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:57PM (#32859531)
Yeah, I can see that distributed generation of a single image would be challenging, but from what I've seen it's very common to generate dozens or hundreds of independent images, then have a human select the best ones.

There's no need for coordination in that case.