Sun Grid Compute Utility 185
jbltgz writes "The Register is reporting that the long awaited Sun Grid Compute Utility has been opened to the public. Now you can run your CPU intensive jobs on a grid of AMD Opteron-based Sun Hardware for $1 per CPU per hour for a fraction of cost, in a fraction of the time."
FYI: Non USians need not apply. (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
Greetings Professor Falken... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:POVRay (Score:2, Funny)
Compile gentoo with KDE in only 20hrs
Browse 10 pages in Firefox
Run Windows XP Pro AND Notepad at the same time
Get 20FPS in BF2
Run a "Hello World" java applet
Re:FYI: Non USians need not apply. (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, so (Score:3, Funny)
Re:FYI: Non USians need not apply. (Score:1, Funny)
Second amendment, baby.
Let 'em come.
Real TIme Fractal Exploring (Score:1, Funny)
Seti@home (Score:4, Funny)
Take down NEZ for one day-- that would be sweet
http://www.boincstats.com/stats/boinc_user_stats.
Re:Is there a distributed alternative? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes this exists, but I think the 'Bot-ware manufacturers have the market sewn up, and at $0 / hr.
Re:POVRay (Score:3, Funny)