Dreamy Electric Sheep

A co-worker turned me onto the nifty distributed rendering project called Electric Sheep which turns out really nice mpegs of wiggly screen savers.

Idle cycles on machines with the saver installed are used to render frames from submitted work. Renderings are stitched into mpegs and sent out to client machines.

Users can vote their favor which feeds back into the gene pool for alteration and future renders.

Very nifty stuff. It would be nice to see an infrastructure like this to do more useful computation of any time problems...like atmospheric modeling, attaching proteins to cancer cells, etc....but eye candy is good too.