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My university ran its render farm across idle workstations using the screensaver back in early 2000. Same concept.

And Apple has had simple distributed video encoding since 2005, so yes it is not new in computing, but it is still useful for the gap before a given task can fit comfortably on one machine

Psst, it is "innovative". /s

It is if it’s GPU compute.

Distributed GPU compute has existed for quite some time,

https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirect

And this is because I can't be bothered to dive into older papers, so recent NVIDIA stuff will do.

Not saying you’re wrong, I agree that distributed GPU is available* but that link you provide seems to be for GPU<->Storage, not computer.

*: hell my own compiler is moving to multi-GPU on a single computer and networked devices are the obvious next step.

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