Try Sun Grid, 200 hours for free!

About a year ago, Sun launced their grid computing service called network.com.  As a developer it was possible to try it out, but unfortunately for all the rest of us, only for developers living in the US.

Time is changing, and so it access to the Sun Grid. Now Sun has opened up for a limited time frame, for international developers to try out The Grid. Well, developers from 24 countries, to be excact. Countries that include Denmark (pheeew!), United States (naturally), Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

At the "James Gosling Toy Show" at JavaOne last friday, a guy from the grid team mentioned, that the use of the grid should be about as easy as creating a servlet.

He showed a demo, where a time consuming task normally took about 12 seconds per entry in a table. The demo showed 32 entries. Because he used the grid for computing, the 32 calculations took 12 seconds, instead of 32 times 12 seconds.. Clever!!

To try it out, you have to enroll, and write some stuff about yourself. Sun representatives then have to grant you access. So there is no time to wait - go and enroll, and get your 200 hours of free CPU time!! :-)

When I get granted (hopefully), I'll try it out, and blog about it.

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