By the by: you don't pay Amazon to do much of anything other than set you up an account on the machines, either. YOU are responsible for installing any software you need installed (while the clock is ticking and the data transfer meter is turning over), YOU are responsible for distributing and load balancing your task, etc. Amazon basically just says "Here, hardware and an account!"
CycleComputing is doing all that other stuff, so the customer doesn't have to. Which is pretty neat, and why I haven't, say, rented time on the Amazon cloud to speed up rendering. I'd have to set up their machines, and I'd rather just wait a few extra days to be honest.
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Date: 2012-04-22 12:32 am (UTC)CycleComputing is doing all that other stuff, so the customer doesn't have to. Which is pretty neat, and why I haven't, say, rented time on the Amazon cloud to speed up rendering. I'd have to set up their machines, and I'd rather just wait a few extra days to be honest.