Announcing Request For Compute and a Creator Spotlight on Jakub Malec AKA Sergeposters in this week's BTN.

https://medium.com/rendernetwork/render-network-request-for-compute-btn-friday-june-16th-2023-603194f6e434

New BTN! Artist spotlight on Raoul Marks, the exceptionally talented and inspiring two-time Emmy® Award winner, Bafta-nominated Director, and 3D Motion Designer from Perth, Australia (and Render Network user): https://medium.com/rendernetwork/artist-spotlight-raoul-marks-btn-monday-june-26th-2023-3f9ad27a196c

We have received an Initial Proposal for RNP-004: Open Compute Clients!

Overview

The Render Network has historically served users seeking a specific form of compute: GPU accelerated, path-tracing image, and motion rendering jobs. The Render Network’s initial focus has been democratizing access to and pushing the physical boundaries of this class of media, and the Render Network product has made this available for artists, designers, and engineers at scale.

At the base of Render Network is a network of GPUs, which are capable of performing massively parallel workloads across a variety of use cases via its SDK. The network is in an extremely strong position to support compute jobs across machine learning training, inference, and fine tuning functions.

In order to better serve these new use cases, this RNP proposes an API for external clients to access Render Network compute.

Full Initial Proposal can be found here: https://github.com/rndr-network/RNPs/blob/main/In%20Review/RNP004.md

Feedback is welcome on Discord. https://discord.com/channels/976195870825529354/1128403467678003253/1128417235178889296

The RNP Process can be found here: https://github.com/rndr-network/RNPs/blob/main/Implemented/RNP-000.mdhttps://github.com/rndr-network/RNPs/blob/main/In%20Review/RNP004.md

New BTN details RNP-004 https://medium.com/render-token/rnp-004-preview-btn-friday-july-14th-2023-3dccabf3eca5

Today is the Initial Proposal Vote for #RNP-004!

Voting starts at 12:00 PST. https://snapshot.org/#/rndrnetwork.eth/proposal/0xd00593ffd273ec762a6238e5c06c54147f7a0cb43d5f18d40fe330b4f7ad8f32

RNP-004 Timeline:
Jul 11, 2023 Discord channel created. Initial Proposal
Jul 17, 2023 Initial Proposal Vote Opens
Jul 20, 2023 Initial Proposal Vote Closes
Jul 26, 2023 RNP Vote Opens
Aug 1, 2023 RNP Vote Closes

https://medium.com/render-token/render-network-q2-highlights-and-review-btn-tuesday-july-18th-2023-bc29d579e5ba

Huge new BTN! Q2 highlights and more.

We have updated our twitter username to @rendernetwork

https://twitter.com/rendernetwork

Posting here (and on other official accounts) as verification. It better reflects our community and mission.

The vote has now closed!

With 1.2M RNDR or 99.98% of the vote for RNP-004 the Initial Proposal Vote has closed.

The team is going to review all comments but it looks like the schedule will remain with Jul 26, 2023 being the time for the RNP Vote to open formally for #rnp-004

RNP-004 Timeline:
Jul 11, 2023 Discord channel created. Initial Proposal
Jul 17, 2023 Initial Proposal Vote Opens
Jul 20, 2023 Initial Proposal Vote Closes
Jul 26, 2023 RNP Vote Opens
Aug 1, 2023 RNP Vote Closes

The Render Network Team Review has been posted to Discord and today at 5pm the RNP-004 vote officially opens!

RNP-004 Team Review Results and ANTBIT AMA: https://medium.com/render-token/rnp-004-render-network-foundation-team-review-and-antbit-ama-recap-be7379756295

We are live for the Final Vote for RNP-004. Vote lasts for 6 days.

https://snapshot.org/#/rndrnetwork.eth/proposal/0xdc49d17c4134e51568ab897aaa1a3fc2a4a6f63973293a55e5a4b7a14955d25e

This week's “BTN” is out! The post goes under the hood of the Render Network and explores key metrics from Q2 2023.

👉Read the full post:
https://medium.com/render-token/render-network-q2-highlights-part-2-network-statistics-ac5aa6bfa4e5

Results are final! RNP-004 passes with 99.97% Approve!

https://snapshot.org/#/rndrnetwork.eth/proposal/0xdc49d17c4134e51568ab897aaa1a3fc2a4a6f63973293a55e5a4b7a14955d25e

RNP-004 got approved and added to the roadmap - check out the latest edition of “BTN” for a peek into what the immediate future expanding capabilities looks like for the Render Network.

Don’t miss the preview of #SIGGRAPH2023!

https://medium.com/render-token/rnp-004-recap-siggraph-preview-btn-friday-august-4th-2023-d34193957e7c

Updates on Open Compute and RNP-004: "What was significant about the demo was the processing of real AI training and inference workloads on-demand across a decentralized pool of GPUs — ranging from 3090s to higher performance devices like 4090’s, A100s, and A6000s. This aggregation of decentralized supply, where decentralized hardware configurations and GPU models are simply configured and rented, was an essential feature of the preview."

https://medium.com/render-token/open-compute-updates-btn-september-26th-2023-7d31fae225e8

The Render Network is preparing to implement the Open Compute initiative that was passed in RNP-004, enabling AI / ML GPU workloads to be performed on the Render Network. This week, we are reaching out to our current node operators AND the node waitlist to determine their interest. We have a lot of questions about the preferences of the node operators as it relates to enabling AI jobs concurrently on their current systems or if they would like to have dedicated systems for either process. We are about to send out this email so if you are on these lists, be on the lookout for it and please take some time to update your information.

What this means: we are making huge progress with the outstanding RNPs and are excited to get the updates from our node operators and wait list. Once this is done we are going to explore implementing timelines and opening up the waitlist for those not on it.

* As with any information from the Render Network, please verify on multiple official channels. https://renderfoundation.com/node-update *

RNP-005 is live! https://github.com/rendernetwork/RNPs/blob/main/RNP-005.md

This proposal outlines onboarding Beam as the second Compute Client to leverage Render Network's GPU supply for machine learning workloads.

Beam provides a cloud platform to accelerate AI development and deployment using GPUs without managing infrastructure. Key capabilities include:

Local Python development with remote execution on cloud GPUs

Dynamic cluster orchestration by specifying GPU types/counts, libraries

Auto-scaling of GPU instances based on workload demand

Serverless deployment via REST APIs, cron jobs, task queues

Distributed storage volumes attached to containers

SDKs for CI/CD integration and tooling

Integrating Beam enables the Render Network's decentralized GPU network to power these ML-focused workloads. Beam clusters will be able to access the Render Network's global supply of GPUs tailored for parallelized AI computations.

Snapshot voting for the Initial Proposal Vote open for 72 hours:
https://snapshot.org/#/rndrnetwork.eth/proposal/0x559c0edba0daea7b2a8ff4555a8a119b9ba0185ebbf0ad799a1f21781f71ca19

The Community Vote for RNP-005 just closed with 99.79% voting to pass the proposal. 1.5M Approve vs 3k Deny.

What is next? With the passing we are now in "Render Network Team Review." If it passes technical feasibility the Foundation will post the final RNP-005 Vote on 5pm PST on Wednesday.

The final vote for RNP-005 is now live until November 8th. It is regarding an additional compute client (Beam) being added to the Network. Please vote!

https://snapshot.org/#/rndrnetwork.eth/proposal/0x6444c1fb91955792f0229a4f951b84a6bc3eab9097a03ffea2d6258b686751b8

https://github.com/rendernetwork/RNPs/blob/main/RNP-005.md

News from the Solana Breakpoint conference: The Render Network is live on Solana.

RNDR token holders can now migrate tokens from the Ethereum blockchain to the Solana blockchain using the Upgrade Assistant at upgrade.rendernetwork.com

PLEASE VERIFY ALL LINKS.

"Moving Render's core infrastructure to Solana is a watershed moment that unlocks major new capabilities like real-time streaming and dynamic NFTs," said Jules Urbach, the founder and architect of the Render Network. "Solana's incredible transaction speeds, low costs, and commitment to web-scale architecture make it a perfect fit for the Render Network as we continue building a scalable and decentralized metaverse infrastructure."`

Press Release:

https://medium.com/render-token/render-network-completes-successful-upgrade-to-solana-3d7947b60aed