The Golem Project just announced in a tweet that they finally launched their Brass Beta onto mainnet. The Golem Network aimed to be the first decentralized market for computing power. They raised 820,000 ETH during their ICO more than 2 years ago in February 2016.

Users are now able to sell their unused computing power for GNT, while they are surfing the net or using their PC for less resource consuming tasks. The first release, Brass Golem, focuses one particular task: CGI rendering. According to the Golem website if you join the marketplace as a Requestor you can distribute processing of any Blender and LuxRenderer scene over the Golem Network. You will be able to set the price you are willing to pay to the Providers, who in turn can accept or decline to provide you with the much needed processing power.

CGI rendering is a very resource heavy process and not everyone has the much needed resources for it, specially with the current pace of developments within the industry. This could offer a perfect first use case for the project. Another field the project is looking at is machine learning, specifically training machine learning models.

Hopefully this use case will prove that Ethereum has a lot more useful applications than just CryptoKitties style decentralized games. Check out their download section for the desktop application and video guides.