Description
Gridspot is offering an interesting alternative to the existing EC2 data-center model: Gridspot is crowdsourced. According to Gridspot, this helps allow the service to charge 0.1-0.3 cents per core hour, as opposed to Amazon's 2.7 cents per core hour. Here are a few more details:
Gridspot is perfect for jobs that:
-Can run in parallel
-Aren't privacy sensitive
-Work with consumer DSL line speeds
-Have total computation > 50k CPU-hour