flexible computing

News from the day job:

Yesterday we launched HP Flexible Computing Services (press release), a new utility computing service that provides access to large-scale compute power on a pay per use basis. Initially we're running a few thousand CPUs on the grid in our US and European data centers, with piles of additional capacity in the pipeline. We sure do have a lot of toys ;-)

I'm delighted to see this finally launched; we have been working on it for a couple of years with our friends at Dreamworks, the SE3D animation festival, and other places that we aren't talking about in public. It's still early days for utility computing and there has been an annoying amount of industry hype around the concept, but I feel our new service represents a concrete and pragmatic step toward solving real problems that real people have. Now I guess we'll see how it goes.

Of course this is all just an elaborate but transparent excuse for my not blogging much lately ;-)

Posted by Gene at November 30, 2005 09:47 AM