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Google Offers Cheap Cloud Computing For Low-Priority Tasks
jfruh writes: Much of the history of computing products and services involves getting people desperate for better performance and faster results to pay a premium to get what they want. But Google has a new beta service that's going in the other direction — offering cheap cloud computing services for customers who don't mind waiting. Jobs like data analytics, genomics, and simulation and modeling can require lots of computational power, but they can run periodically, can be interrupted, and can even keep going if one or more nodes they're using goes offline.
I want to found the Center for Cheap Collated Commodity-Clustered Civilian Cloud Computing for Cyclic Customer Code Collocation
If only I was not using the low-priority cloud compting..
i know you guys used to have operating systems and a process abstraction. but now i nest operating systems and processes
layers deep, and went back and added lots of hacks to try to mitigate the huge overheads involved with doing so. but
since that wasn't enough indirection, i added a container layer on top of all that.
my container runs on a virtual network which is attached to another virtual network
none of this runs without a bevy of distributed services that i don't even know about, much less understand
now i can't say anything about anything, and when it fails i simply shrug
bow before my awesome power you neckbeard