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Art
electric sheep logo The electric sheep project uses an xscreensaver module to display an animated fractal flame while rendering frames for the next animation. It is designed for users with with high-bandwidth, always-on Internet connections. It doesn't seem to work through firewalls. Beta version 2.7b10 is available for Windows as of September 9, 2008. Beta version 2.7b9 is available for Linux. See the project's download page for information about the latest applications and versions. Users behind a firewall will have to configure the firewall to allow port 8080 in order to use the client.

See example images of fractal flames.

Join a discussion forum about the project.

ongoing Linux
MacOS
the Internet Movie Project Render images for computer-animated movies in Internet Movie Project. The project is an open-source collaboration of volunteers and is just for fun. It is still in the development phase, but you can volunteer to be a "render-farmer," to render images for test animation sequences. Anyone who can run the free POV-Ray ray-tracing program can join this project, although the supporting scripts and software needed for the project only work on the Windows and Linux platforms for now.

The project released its first general-release distributed rendering client along with a live job, on November 12, 2001. It is releasing live jobs frequently as of June, 2003, to test and further develop the system.

Job #37 (300 frames) was completed in March, 2004.
Job #38 (1,200 frames) was completed in March, 2004.
Job #39 (300 frames) was completed in March, 2004.
Job #43 (9,000 frames) was completed on August 24, 2004.
Job #44 (4,320 frames) was completed on September 8, 2004.
Job #45 (1,800 frames) was completed on October 28, 2004.
Job #47 (300 frames) was completed on April 7, 2006.
Job #48 (450 frames) was completed on April 8, 2006.
Job #49 (1,050 frames) was completed on September 23, 2006.
Job #50 (875 frames) was completed in October, 2006.
Job #51 (2,790 frames) was completed on October 13, 2006.
Job #54 (1,200 frames) was completed on November 2, 2006.

See information and movies for past projects on the job status page.

Version 0.67 of the IMPFarm client is available for Windows and Linux as of October 24, 2006. To use the client, register on the project website and supply that userid and password to the client when you install the client.

Join the project's IRC Channel to chat in realtime (Network: irc.newnet.net, channel: #IMP (or if you don't have an IRC client you can use the newnet web chat at http://www.newnet.net/jirc/chatme.html. Just type /join #IMP in the text box and press Enter.))

Job #54:
100.0%
Windows
Linux
NEW!
Help RenderFarm@Home render graphical images and animations.

Note: the project website is unavailable as of December 1, 2007. The project may have ended.

The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 5.05 of the Persistence of Vision Raytracer client is available for Windows as of September 24, 2006. Note that the project changed its URL in late April, 2007. Participants who attached their BOINC client to the old URL should attach to the new URL http://www.renderfarmathome.com.ar/.

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376,735 dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

BURP BURP the Big and Ugly Rednering Project, is a BOINC-based project which renders three-dimensional animations. The project is in alpha stage. It is rendering animations as it is developed and tested. Completed sessions may be downloaded from the session gallery. As of March 20, the project is preparing to begin its Beta phase. Participants from the Alpha phase need to upgrade their accounts if they wish to continue participating in the project.

The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 4.56 of the Blender application is available for Windows and Linux as of October 8, 2007.

As of August 19, 2005, project participants can register their server to become a BURP mirror to help distribute the load of transfering input files, movie files, application files, and other project-related files.

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37,003,335 dialup-friendly

Windows 32
Linux

vswarm Help vSwarm render three-dimensional animations submitted by project members. Project members can submit projects to be rendered in the Blender or LuxRender software applications, and other project members using the vSwarm client application automatically render images for those projects. Note that as of January 20, 2010, the project is in Alpha test stage, with active development of the project software ongoing, and the software and project website and project server may not work completely reliably yet.

To participate in the project, determine whether your computer meets the project's system requirements, then download and install the client.

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unknown dialup-friendly

Windows 32

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paid projectthis is a for-pay project
Windows 32this project runs on the Windows 32-bit platform
Linuxthis project runs on the Linux platform
MacOSthis project runs on the Mac OS platform
Solaristhis project runs on the Solaris platform

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