I think an innovative solution, assuming you have a defined timeframe for this project, is the following:
Set aside a small portion of your budget (£250-£500 - I'm guessing) and set up a BOINC server on an EC2 instance; http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CloudServer . It will probably not cost as much as I have suggested above as it won't be *nearly* as intensive as actually doing the computing required for analysis of the experiments but you can use some of the budget to pay a server admin to set it up for you if you are not very confident. Although, I am certain, if you looked around any of the big communities involved in grid projects (overclock.net, evga, etc.), someone would be willing to assist you for free.
Go around to the major forums posting a message in their grid computing projects asking for assistance and offering a £2000 prize or donation to a charity of their choosing for the group that completes the most work units over the project's life. This may sound like a lot of hard work, but these groups are fiercely competitive and are extremely willing to help to any cause and it will be not as difficult as it seems when reading this.
At the very least, I can guarantee you about 20 users from a grid forum I am part of that will contribute - at £0 cost.
Best of luck!
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I think an innovative solution, assuming you have a defined timeframe for this project, is the following: Set aside a small portion of your budget (£250-£500 - I'm guessing) and set up a BOINC server on an EC2 instance; http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CloudServer . It will probably not cost as much as I have suggested above as it won't be *nearly* as intensive as actually doing the computing required for analysis of the experiments but you can use some of the budget to pay a server admin to set it up for you if you are not very confident. Although, I am certain, if you looked around any of the big communities involved in grid projects (overclock.net, evga, etc.), someone would be willing to assist you for free. Go around to the major forums posting a message in their grid computing projects asking for assistance and offering a £2000 prize or donation to a charity of their choosing for the group that completes the most work units over the project's life. This may sound like a lot of hard work, but these groups are fiercely competitive and are extremely willing to help to any cause and it will be not as difficult as it seems when reading this. At the very least, I can guarantee you about 20 users from a grid forum I am part of that will contribute - at £0 cost. Best of luck!