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Wall St. Trading Servers To Power Off-Hour Clouds?
miller60 writes "As cloud computing gains traction, some Wall Street firms running armadas of servers to power high-frequency trading operations are contemplating leasing out their excess computing capacity after the trading day ends at 4 p.m. 'Once 4:30 rolls around, we don't need those machines,' said one CTO of a market data firm. 'There may be an opportunity there.' A similar revelation led to the creation of the cloud computing operation at Amazon.com, which built its infrastructure to handle peak Christmas-season loads that lasted just a few weeks each year."
$20 says this idea was cooked up by someone who heard about "cloud computing" on the radio while in his cushy office, signing official looking papers and making a big fuss about "revenue".
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We need more data.
I'm sure that we'll get plenty of data once someone hacks one of the servers.
What about computers the service cloud computing?
What about sentences the make sense?
So of course, the logical answer is to put these servers into a containerized data center, launched into low earth orbit from a giant railgun, and splashing down in the harbor of Hong Kong or some other financial center. Just do this twice a day, back and forth to New York, and they'll always be co-located during market hours.
Then: profit!