Re:$1/CPU/hour? (Score 1)

You are ignoring many of the costs associated with running your cluster (who pays your electricity bill?) but that's academic. You're probably right, for your particular use case it may be cheaper to buy and feed your own 'grid' but for many cases it doesn't make sense - if you want a large number of CPUs for a short period (ie. less than 100% utilization) then renting CPU time may make more sense. Also, you should seriously consider competing with Sun if you think you can charge 10c for the same service - competition will create a true commodity market. Rich (Sun employee)