Sun Begins Pay-As-You-Go Supercomputing

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
Sun Microsystems plans to announce a plan Tuesday to let customers rent supercomputing power from its data centers, paying for exactly as much muscle as they need.
The program, called the Secure N1 Grid, will cost $1 per processor per hour to use, President Jonathan Schwartz is expected to announce at a New York event designed to curry favor among Wall Street customers. Sun also plans to announce new midrange storage systems, two midrange Unix servers based on the company's UltraSparc IV processor and new networking gear designed to improve secure Web site performance. The event is the third quarterly announcement this year from the Santa Clara, Calif.-based server and software company. Those awaiting the upcoming version 10 release of the Solaris operating system--and the specific open-source licensing terms under which Sun will share it--will have to wait for the fourth quarterly announcement toward the end of the year.
Source: ZDNet

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    So what say we get a few hundred bucks together for some Team 93 folding time :eek:

    Oh, there's that slight problem of there being no solaris multi-core client :-/
  • PressXPressX Working! New
    edited September 2004
    $8760 a year per proc. Hmm. Could be cheap server power?
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