vSwarm: a Free Render Farm In the Cloud

Using Blender or Luxrender and need some serious horsepower for a render, but don’t own a renderfarm?  Well good news! vSwarm is attempting to bring the power of tools like Seti@Home and Folding@Home to render farms, allowing users worldwide to install a simple client on their machine and harnessing their unused compute time.

Currently in alpha, just install the client and let it run to start earning credits that you can then cash in to use for your own render jobs!  It’s still a bit quirky and in early alpha, but it does work (most of the time). Hit up their site for registration details, downloads, and instructions.

vSwarm: Free Render Farm – Cloud Computing for Rendering.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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