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yes the website is down for me too
As a demonstration of their capabilities, I'm underwhelmed.
I think it's a demonstration of how popular the post is, not their capabilities.
Show HN: Gridspot, 10x cheaper cloud compute using distributed computing
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#12Boom goes the dynamite.
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#13This reminds me of http://www.pluraprocessing.com/
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#14I'm curious to see if this works.
"SETI but paid" is a very tempting idea, but we could never get the back of the envelope math to work out to the point where we could pay the contributors anything compelling (e.g., enough to offset their power cost).
I guess you can get a few people to sign-up for fun, but we could never come up with a reason other than serendipity that would make people donate their CPU time for us to resell. I'll be interested to see how/if they respond to this challenge, or if there's something I'm not seeing that makes this point moot.
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#15This is great - it looks to have some very sensible answers to many of the questions of how a distributed cloud would work.
The thing that excites me most about a distributed cloud is that it could turn the notion of elastic computing on its head. You can buy your peak compute requirement, and sell back the surplus. So you can get elastic computing not by re-engineering your own systems, but by selling excess capacity to those whose workloads are a good match.
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#16They could use few of those cheap instances to run their web site, its so slow.
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#17Ironic how the website is down for me.
In the bigger picture, there are a whole lot of interesting things that would need to be built to allow for non-batch processing on a cloud like this... a smart web proxy / front-end that could cope when your instances go down being #1 on the list.
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#18Yay, trying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Power again.
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#19How do they handle security? If the software they're using to virtualize these instances is exploitable, then you could break into the host machine and do whatever you like with it.
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#20So, how would one contribute to this?