[Computer-go] rent-a-supercomputer

[steve uurtamo]

if you can get people interested in it, you can get it for free with
BOINC (berkeley open infrastructure for network computing). this is
how seti at home works, for instance, along with a bunch of other
projects that come in and go out as they finish working over their
datasets.

you can get massive, massive computing power this way. all for free.

s.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:37 PM, terry mcintyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Interesting article at
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/18/amazon_cloud_sha_password_hack/
>
> Their focus is the use of rented computer resources to crack passwords, etc.
> but the same principles could also apply to, for example, running large
> tests of computer go programs.
>
> See also http://www.openstack.org/ - an effort to make cloud services
> open-source, so anybody can roll out a cloud and make it available to the
> public. Could cloud computing become today's version of the ISP boom?
> What would you do if you could rent lots of computer power for pennies per
> hour?
> Terry McIntyre <terrymcintyre at yahoo.com>
>
> Unix/Linux Systems Administration
> Taking time to do it right saves having to do it twice.
>
>
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