I read that Sun have licensed their large Computer Grid to anyone that wants to use it; Jonathan Schwartz reported to have said "Why build your own grid when you can use ours for a buck an hour?". I thought that to be rather cheap ... Sun can only make $24 per day from their Grid. Thats not going to pay many salaries.
However, I read on and discovered there was small print. It is not an hour of grid time, but the cumlative time of all the processors running your problem or algorithm. So, a problem that only took 3 seconds to complete, actually used up in total 12hrs of processing time and therefore cost $12. I suspect somebody somewhere is going to get a shock when they receive their Sun invoice!
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