Los Angeles-based OTOY, a company that has created software used for visual effects in projects such as “Westworld” and “The Avengers,” also launched a blockchain- and cryptocurrency-based rendering platform called RNDR to help other content creators harness the power of thousands of graphics processing units (GPUs). OTOY’s strategy is to gather a group of computer owners who can share their GPUs in the cloud in a decentralized way, and thus trade GPU power among members to accomplish data-intense imagery.
VentureBeat reports that in Q2, “OTOY did a beta test survey of 1,200 contributors that supports its conclusion that its global decentralized network of GPUs is powering is the world’s largest cloud network of its kind.” The network consists of 14,000 GPUs, of which 11,000 are “still compatible with the platform, yielding a combined rendering power of 1.5 million OctaneBench (OB) … a benchmarking utility for Otoy’s OctaneRender software.”
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