I figured this would go bigger. Buy a server with 8 Xeon processors. One usable at purchase price. Then you could subscribe to use the others as needed. Pay

I figured this would go bigger. Buy a server with 8 Xeon processors. One usable at purchase price. Then you could subscribe to use the others as needed. Pay per cycle? Per active core? You could buy chunks of 1 million instructions. Spend them on a single CPU or all 8. Better buy a lot of chunks. Cloud billing in our own datacenter. My memory might be failing me but this is pretty close to IBMs billing on mainframes is it not? Always seemed a tad sadistic. I think at some point IBM shipped them with more hardware than you paid for and then you could buy updates at some point.