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Why don't small animation studios ditch the render farm and use a utility computing service? Sun's Grid digipede 3Tera

I am going to win this contest with a Grid Spellchecker. From the official rules:
https://coolapps.developer.network.com/Rules.html
CoolApps Developer Challange Contest
The 3rd word is misspelled! My Grid SpellChecker would have caught that in a fraction of the time of a regular old spellchecker...
Sun should just send me the 15K right now.

Coolapps Contest Page

The linked page actually explains the contest. International contestants can use the Compute Server Plugin for NetBeans to compete.

Contest B

        * Open to both US and International participants
        * Does not require access to the Sun Grid Compute Utility
        * Contest submission must be developed using the Compute Server Plugin for NetBeans.
                    o This excludes C/C++ applications as well as Java applications not developed with Compute Server Project.
        * Contest submission must fall within at least one of the following relevant categories: Financial Services, Media and Entertainment, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Energy, Scientific and Academic, Misc.
        * Contest submission must not require a 3rd-party commercial license to run.

Coolapps Contest Description referenced by the Sun press release, but not linked (for some reason).

International Contestents can use the Compute Server Plugin for NetBeans.

Actually even better, if you read the contest rules it's not $100k at all. They're giving out a total of $100k. Each contest winner wins $15k. Second place gets $5k. For three months of development at maximum, it's not worth your time. In fact, unless you're doing this in about one man-month, you'd probably be losing money compared to what you'd earn in wages. However, most people who do work on this will be doing it on the side, so this is technically extra money in the bank. Still, unless you have a great idea for a project for this that won't take much time, it's probably not worth the effort to try.

I really like the idea behind this Sun's project (network.com? I'm sure it was not cheap to get that domain). It even makes me wanna install JBuilder or something by the way and program in Java again.


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From the FAQ:

 
18. Q:
What are the basic minimum technical requirements to run an application on the Sun Grid Compute Utility?
A:
The following requirements must be met:
Application must run on Solaris 10 (x64).
User must own the application or have proper legal licenses to run applications on the Sun Grid Compute Utility.
Applications must be scripted to work with N1 Grid Engine software.
Application must be self-contained, with no dependencies on external libraries or data sets
Application and data sets total size must be under 10GB.
The user must upload application and data to the Sun Grid over the Internet via portal the Internet Portal at http://www.network.com/

Answers to your questions can be found at http://www.network.com/.

Click here to kick off a job on Sun's Compute Grid consisting of AMD Opteron-based Sun Hardware.

Back in 1986 the first router company sent a vice president to California to check out some companies there as canidates for a buy out. After much thought the executive decided that Cisco was going nowhere, and they bought a slightly larger router company down the street from Cisco.

Long timers at Network System belive that if the executive had decided to buy Cisco instead of the other company, you wouldn't have heard of Cisco today, instead that other company would have been dominate. How things change, Network Systems no longer makes routers, having realised that Cisco won the market long ago.