[HN Gopher] SheepIt Render Farm
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SheepIt Render Farm
Author : Tomte
Score : 46 points
Date : 2023-11-17 13:35 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sheepit-renderfarm.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sheepit-renderfarm.com)
| vorticalbox wrote:
| I used this in college around 6 years ago to render my animation
| for the computing course.
|
| Thanks for the reminder!
| ranting-moth wrote:
| I like this. I'd like it even more if it'd have some sort of a
| credit system. When I'm rendering for others I'd accumulate
| credits. When I need rendering I could use those credits for
| priority.
|
| I seems fair but might be tricky to implement to prevent
| fraud/abuse?
| alexfromapex wrote:
| That's exactly what they have but for me it took way too long
| rendering for others and I never got a chance to render my own
| stuff
| mintplant wrote:
| That's already how it works! Look for "points" in the FAQ.
|
| https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/faq
| charcircuit wrote:
| Wouldn't that incentive people to just return all black
| images and render nothing to get free points?
| dylan604 wrote:
| Then make it a feature so that the person receiving the
| renders can accept/reject them. If they are rejected, then
| the renderer is not credited. If the person receiving racks
| up too many rejects, then they cannot submit new renders.
| The reject process would be hairy in that you'd need to
| explain why. It has potential for getting nasty, but any
| 2-party system can.
| junon wrote:
| Then I'll be a dick and modify the client to take the
| frames anyway and still send a reject. It's going to be
| abused.
| fragmede wrote:
| Oh. You're why we can't have nice things.
|
| Seriously though, any platform is going to have its share
| of liars, cheaters, grifters, con artists, and outright
| scams. What the world relies on is that enough people
| aren't. The trick is attracting enough honest people
| while driving away enough of the dishonest people. it's a
| constant game of cat and mouse.
| Lornedon wrote:
| The website exists since 2013, and it seems like they
| managed just fine.
| ranting-moth wrote:
| Have the reject frames re-rendered by someone else to
| find out the truth. Ban abusers.
|
| Better yet, make all abusers render each other frames.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I haven't done render farm stuff since the 3DSmax 5 era in high
| school. Do they let you do stuff like ask to see a frame, kind of
| like when someone walks up to a production line to spot check the
| product?
| capableweb wrote:
| You can just send a job with the specific frame you want to
| preview, get the results back and once you're happy, send the
| entire render job.
| aswinmohanme wrote:
| Does a system exist where we can train open source LLM models in
| this way? Maybe distribute it across a cluster of computers with
| credit points that can be later used for inference.
| capableweb wrote:
| Not for training, but execution in a SheepIt-similar way can be
| done with AI Horde, which not only does LLM inference but also
| Stable Diffusion. https://stablehorde.net/
| alden5 wrote:
| Years ago when gpu power was basically free through google colab
| I used that to my advantage by racking up sheepit credits
| rendering other people's projects on google's dime. I still have
| about 10 million credits right now and I don't think I'll be able
| to use them all.
| hyperific wrote:
| This exudes chaotic good energy
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