Sun dollar-an-hour computing
p2pnet.net News:- Sun Microsystems says it wants to make major computing power easily and readily (and, hence, profitably ; ) available and with this in mind, has launched what it says is the first pay-per-use model for grid computing.
Starting at $1 per CPU per hour, Sun says its N1 Grid Pay-Per-Use service will enable you to:
- Buy additional compute cycles to get compute intensive applications finished without having to purchase additional hardware
- Offload less important jobs to a pay-per-use environment, "enabling more important and business critical jobs to be executed more expeditiously"
- Provide a cost effective method to either run additional jobs or manage high workload "blips".
Cycles will be powered by Sun Fire V20z and V40z Servers based on AMD Opteron processors, installed with Solaris 10 and the Studio 9 Developer Environment, says Sun, promising that customer sessions are kept secure with N1 Grid Containers.
The company is offering potential users the means to test-drive Sun hardware and software online.
After registering, they can get free access to an N1 Grid Container pre-loaded with the Sun Studio 9 development environment and ‘quickstart’ documentation on Solaris 10.
"Within the container, you can build and run applications just as if the development system was located on your own premises," says Sun, stating, "This is not a demo, this is the real thing."
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See:-
N1 Grid – N1 Grid Computing Pay-Per-Use Cycles, Sun
