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Right. Its a very interesting technical project but I`m at a loss for who your customers would be. I suppose the same people that use BOINC...? Because most com

by namank 16y ago

Right. Its a very interesting technical project but I`m at a loss for who your customers would be. I suppose the same people that use BOINC...? Because most companies that would need that level of power already have the infrastructure (then there is security...) This is one market that would require some research. Again though, very attractive technically...you just need to find people willing to pay. Could you build a reliable, fast enough web server on this? So that your master receives a request and hands it off to a node in the network which parses and responds to the client? THAT would work and could actually compete with Google Apps and AWS without their costs!

matthewhardnack 15y ago
Yeah, there's a lot of research required for a project like this, so much so that I don't think one person could cover all the bases. Another reason I turned to HN. Like you mentioned before, most of the bigger companies that need this level of power already have it. But the real question we need to ask is, do they want it? Does a cheaper price, less maintenance and greater amounts of power qualify for a transition to third-party cloud-computing? Or would security and the ability to fix any in-house issues out-weigh those? As far as the server configuration, that's not my specific expertise, so that I'm not sure, but that sounds like a viable solution. I think I'm going to write up an article on posterous about this, I'm interested to see how many people I can get interested in a project like this, in order to determine if I should dedicate any time to it. I'll go into more details, such as specifications, features, issues and what the project hopes to solve. I'll post it as a "Show HN" when I get it finished, I'll also reply to to this comment so you know when it's up. Also, sorry for the delayed response, in the middle of a flight to HK.

by namank 16y ago

matthewhardnack 15y ago

Yeah, there's a lot of research required for a project like this, so much so that I don't think one person could cover all the bases. Another reason I turned to HN. Like you mentioned before, most of the bigger companies that need this level of power already have it. But the real question we need to ask is, do they want it? Does a cheaper price, less maintenance and greater amounts of power qualify for a transition to third-party cloud-computing? Or would security and the ability to fix any in-house issues out-weigh those? As far as the server configuration, that's not my specific expertise, so that I'm not sure, but that sounds like a viable solution. I think I'm going to write up an article on posterous about this, I'm interested to see how many people I can get interested in a project like this, in order to determine if I should dedicate any time to it. I'll go into more details, such as specifications, features, issues and what the project hopes to solve. I'll post it as a "Show HN" when I get it finished, I'll also reply to to this comment so you know when it's up. Also, sorry for the delayed response, in the middle of a flight to HK.