What if this is just a pilot to generate some noise?
Surely as a value proposition, Sun could make money on the grid technology (software, architecture etc) by licensing it to owners of large amounts of computer power.
How about if Lawrence Livermore labs and Los Alamos National Labs got together to share their computing power using this grid technology?
Sun get revenues from licensing the grid-management software, and potentially hardware sales....
and the government (or universities, or whoever) gets a larger pool of computing power than any of their single supercomputers, that they can devote to different research groups.
The selling computer-time is a red herring I'd say, based on my experience of Sun.
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What if this is just a pilot to generate some noise?
Surely as a value proposition, Sun could make money on the grid technology (software, architecture etc) by licensing it to owners of large amounts of computer power.
How about if Lawrence Livermore labs and Los Alamos National Labs got together to share their computing power using this grid technology?
Sun get revenues from licensing the grid-management software, and potentially hardware sales....
and the government (or universities, or whoever) gets a larger pool of computing power than any of their single supercomputers, that they can devote to different research groups.
The selling computer-time is a red herring I'd say, based on my experience of Sun.