fat fucking chance at present. Processes must return data within a few seconds, so unless I can take up an arbitrary amount of CPU-hours in those few seconds,

fat fucking chance at present. Processes must return data within a few seconds, so unless I can take up an arbitrary amount of CPU-hours in those few seconds, there won't be an awful lot of simulation or analysis going on until the TOS changes. Not that I expected otherwise -- there are plenty of people (like, say, my officemate) who would pay a few bucks to run a few million simulations on Google's infrastructure. (I would too, but it'd have to be a lot of nodes, since I have my own farm of client machines due to the way I arrange consulting) I hear they are actually CPU starved these days, which quite literally boggles my mind... if Google can run out of cycles, anyone can. But that informs the current deployment and limitations if it is true.