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Sun Enters Grid-Computing Rental Market

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the check-out-the-clip-art-scientist dept.

mOoZik writes "BBC News is reporting that Sun Microsystems has launched a pay-as-you-go service which will allow customers requiring huge computing power to rent it by the hour. "Why build your own grid when you can use ours for a buck an hour?" asks Sun's COO Jonathan Schwartz."

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  1. My question - what kind of processor by vlad_petric · · Score: 0, Troll
    No, I wouldn't pay a buck an hour for a Sun processor. They're simply the worst for scientific computing. They work very well for server benchmarks, where all you need really is just lots of caches and lots of execution contexts, but not for number crunching.

    If they were Opterons, it would make sense though.

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