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Distributed computational resources have a value. For example, there is a list of scientific projects being conducted via many client computation: http://en.wik
by calanya 16y ago
Distributed computational resources have a value. For example, there is a list of scientific projects being conducted via many client computation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_p...
- nolite 16y agoNo of course, but those are research projects. I assume you're talking about a business, which implies commercial. Is the govt going to fund your business like they (directly or indirectly) fund these research projects, or will there be paying clients/customers? Who will need to crack encryption keys (or whatever..) often enough to pay you instead of setting up their own cluster? Ads make money because they make the advertisers money. Is searching for gravitational waves, or ET going to make someone money?
- calanya 16y agoCommercial opportunities include protein structure prediction for drug design, brute-force attacks for breaking security, and various simulations (geophysics, finance).