[Beowulf] Selling computation time

[Chris Samuel]

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 05:29, Chetoo Valux wrote:

> 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.

We occasionally get approached by commercial customers wanting access to our 
HPC clusters (as well as assistance spec'ing, buying, configuring and 
maintaining them) and we help out where we can (NB: if they want to use 
commercial software they have to bring their own licenses).

But our core business is supporting our academic users at the institutions 
that are members (i.e. owners) of VPAC.

-- 
 Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager
 Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/
 Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia

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