http://www.shack.ca/index.php?id=16
As I was searching for a way to speed up my video encoding I stumbled on this article. I couldn’t agree more. Even if Moore’s law holds true, it will be 10 years before a home PC will encode video to DVD at an acceptable speed. With video editing becoming a more mainstream activity there needs to be an easy way to aggregate the processing power of the 3-4 computers in some of our households. There is a Java X-Grid client which allowed me to connect 3 machines to my Mac for a total of 12 Ghz of processing power but I can’t run my encoding client on an X-Grid of mixed platform. I wonder how schools with active video production facilities are dealing with this…maybe a video encoding grid at Secondary would help these students be more productive and address one of the least appealing aspects of digital video production.
Keywords: Education, educational technology, management, technology