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Fake it till you make it? I don't know for sure, but could they be subsidising the launch by running instances on EC2? ... When they get enough hosts signed up,

by damian2000 14y ago

Fake it till you make it? I don't know for sure, but could they be subsidising the launch by running instances on EC2? ... When they get enough hosts signed up, switch over to their distributed model, or even run a hybrid combination to handle demand spikes.

pash 14y ago
Google shows results for "gridspot.exe" on ID-this-process sites dating from mid-March. So it's out there and has been for a few months. The question is whose machines it's running on.
- sdesol 14y ago
  Google also has this link as the #1 link ... well for me anyways. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120329124823AAT62kg http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120329124823AA... It does in bring into question whether or not gridspot.exe was installed nefariously.
  - runn1ng 14y ago
    Selling botnets as cloud service? That is not be such a bad idea after all...