From: "mbent@acm.org" Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: Uses for commercial Beowulf cluster Date: 21 Jul 1999 14:26:48 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <7n4lb8$rrn$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ux6.sp.cs.cmu.edu Xref: ukc comp.parallel:15741 Rendering is a common application. What if the application required a fast internet connection to communicate with the business's own computers, would you have a site with both lots of space and a fast internet connection? Most colocates charge the earth for rackspace. Maybe you need your own facility? Logical_1 wrote: > A friend and I are considering building a private Beowulf system from > some spare machines and from some machines that we will be buying. > Before investing any amount of money over what has already been > invested (very little), I would like to ask what business segments > should we market to to sell processor time? We are interested in > building the computer for experience if nothing else, but if we can > make money selling processor time to companies that have larger > programs that won't need it for long periods of time, we would be > interested in leasing time on the computer as a means to pay for > itself. I am just curious what types of businesses would be > interested in using a super-computer class cluster system for short > periods of time to work on new, existing, or rewritten software so > that they would not have to buy their own system like this for a small > amoutn of work annually. (The price we are considering would be > around US$100/hour for the use of a 44 processor/22 system cluster > with 433Mhz processors and 128mb RAM per machine running Linux 2.2.x) -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel