OmnibusCloud is open
Most computers spend most of their lives doing nothing useful. Mine does. Yours probably does too — idle after work, between gaming sessions, overnight, while you're away. That unused time is real computing power — already built, already yours — sitting idle.
OmnibusCloud is my attempt to put it to work. It's a crowdcomputing platform: you contribute the machine you're not using, or you gather a community's machines to get real work done. As of today, it's open as a public beta — starting with 3D rendering.
What's open today
Two things. Contribute — connect a machine and let it help projects you care about while it's idle. Or create — publish a project that needs computing, explain why it matters, and invite people to help complete it.
The first kind of work is 3D rendering, on Blender. It's a natural place to start: a render splits cleanly into many frames and tiles that run independently across many different machines, and the result is something you can actually see.
If you have a machine to share
Connect it, pick the projects you want to support, and that's it. Your machine helps only when it's idle and only on your terms — set a schedule, choose which of your machines take part, and pause any of them the moment you want your full power back. Contributing should never get in the way of your own work, gaming or creating, so it doesn't.
If you have work that needs compute
Tell the story behind your project and publish it on the portal. When people join with their machines, you reach compute capacity a solo artist or a small team could never assemble alone — gathered from a community of machines rather than a central datacenter.
What it isn't — yet
I'd rather be straight with you than oversell. This is a beta: it starts with rendering and nothing else, and there will be rough edges. I'll be fixing them in the open.
What won't change is the safety model. Every workload is reviewed before it can run, and stays self-contained on your machine — it doesn't read your files and writes only to a temp folder you control. The first controllers are open source, so the code is there for anyone to inspect. Your machine, your rules, your choice to take part.
Where this is going
OmnibusCloud opens as crowdcomputing — a community-driven mode that stays permanent — and grows from there. New kinds of work get added as controllers, so what the network can compute extends well beyond rendering over time. The direction is a single global computer assembled from everyday machines: the ultracomputer. Rendering is just where it starts.
Take part
Explore projects, connect a machine, or create your own.
Let's build the ultracomputer together.