Mountain View, California-based Ray Dream Inc appears to have reinvented Apollo Computer’s Distributed Computing Environment, but specifically for the Apple Computer Inc Macintosh. It says it will this week demonstrate a new technology that enables computationally intensive applications tap into idle CPUs on a Mac network. The company is a developer of three-dimensional graphics software for the Mac, and according to Microbytes Daily, the new DreamNet product is suitable for using the available power of consenting machines to render three-dimensional images on a master machine, but could also be used for spreadsheets and such. DreamNet polls all the Macs on the network for idle CPU time in a way that’s transparent to the users.
