Hi there,
are there any plans to offer a plugin to use more than one computer for larger jobs ob batch processing images, eg. from raw to tiff?
In my office, there is a total of four computers, and even if these are a not the newest machines, together they are probably faster than the newest hexacore computers.
These computers are connected via gbit ethernet which gives transfer speeds of about 100mbyte/s, so there shouldn't be any performance problems due to a slow connection.
This could be done with a main server running Lightroom or Bridge, and one or more host computers which are running a host program controling the camera raw plugin. Each host computer gets a raw file transfered, processes it and transfers back the tiff file to the main server.
As far as i can guess, it should be fairly easy to program such a software, and it could probably be sold as a plugin. For most hobbyists and small businesses, it would be a no-brainer to buy such plugin instead of upgrading their computers, because the price for a comparable performance gain is muss less.