[Beowulf] Selling computation time

[Buccaneer for Hire.]

--- Chetoo Valux <chetoo.valux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Maybe these dates I've drunk too much champagne, but
> I've wondered about the
> following: as you know building and maintining a
> cluster is not a trivial
> issue, not to mention housing it ...
> 
> I wonder then if there would be potential buyers for
> cluster time. I've been
> browsing,  not too deep, the net, and I've not found
> (yet) any information
> of someone selling cluster time.
> 
> And when clusters come into place, I guess this is
> one of the right places
> to ask ...
> 

Big investment fixed and variable costs.  Lots of
companies doing it.  IBM for instance, has a number of
super computing sites.

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