# The worker network

Behind every model that opens instantly and every plate stitched overnight stands the **AerariumChain worker network**: a distributed body of computing nodes, coordinated by the Hub, that carries all the heavy technical work so that no museum has to maintain it alone.

## What it carries

- Format conversion, textures and levels of detail for every 3D delivery.
- The resolution of raw scanner sessions into finished meshes.
- Color profiling, alignment and the final stitching of gigapixel plates.
- The preservation derivatives packaged by **DPAC** (Ecomic).
- The cloud rendering behind the [3D viewer](/en/3d-viewer/): each viewing session is served live from a node of the network.

Every delivery or request becomes a job; nodes declare what they are equipped for (graphics processors, installed software), receive the jobs that match, and the Hub balances the queue, retries what fails, and keeps the ledger. Sensitive material never leaves the AerariumChain pipeline.

Administrators watch all of this in the **Worker Monitor**: nodes online, their load and temperature, the queue, the history of jobs. Each node can be tuned, admitted to certain families of work and excluded from others.

## A shared infrastructure for cultural heritage

The network is conceived to grow as a **common infrastructure**, in the way great conservation undertakings have always been shared. Museums, public institutions, research bodies and partner companies can join it by operating a node:

- **Who may join**: institutions, research organisations, museums and AerariumChain partner companies.
- **What a node gives**: computing time for processing and rendering, coordinated automatically by the Hub.
- **What a member receives**: processing capacity for its own collections, and a standing in a network whose purpose is the preservation of heritage.

An institution interested in operating a node can approach AerariumChain through [aerariumchain.com](https://aerariumchain.com).