[Linux-cluster] Selling computation time

[Tom Mornini]

I know of a special purpose (Ruby on Rails hosting) in place and  
available as you're asking:

http://www.engineyard.com

:-)

This cluster is sold in sub-machine units called "slices" which are  
Xen instances. These Xen slices are grouped into environments which  
share a GFS via AoE.

We provide this shared cluster service, in addition to private  
cluster hosting, and complete cluster-in-a-cabinet packages.

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On Dec 26, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Chetoo Valux wrote:

> Maybe these dates I've drunk too much champagne, but I've wondered  
> about the following: as you know building and maintining a cluster  
> is not a trivial issue, not to mention housing it ...
>
> I wonder then if there would be potential buyers for cluster time.  
> I've been browsing,  not too deep, the net, and I've not found  
> (yet) any information of someone selling cluster time.
>
> And when clusters come into place, I guess this is one of the right  
> places to ask ...