[computer-go] Pay-as-you-go cluster?

[Chris Fant]

Can someone please do this?  I'd love to see a good MC algo scaled out
to 100 CPUs in the next tourney.


On 10/1/06, Darren Cook <darren at dcook.org> wrote:
> For many of us a cluster is just not practical: even if we could afford
> 100 computers, where to put them, and how to meet the power
> requirements. But if you have a scalable algorithm then it may be nice
> to have 100 machines for just the couple of hours of a tournament.
>
> If I've read the following correctly, you can get 100 1.75GHz computers
> of power for 2 hours for a total of $20:
>   http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011
>
> Do I sound like their salesman? :-) Actually I'm just curious if there
> is a catch (*), or if anyone is experimenting with this, or knows of
> competitors.
>
> Darren
>
> *: My guess is that as it is aimed at web hosting they're not expecting
> a CPU-bound application?
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