If a company was offering a Pay-for-Distributed-Computing program...

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
instead of doing it per hour, should do it per work unit, that way you can earn more if you have a faster computer!

Or the modern model - per cycle.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
instead of doing it per hour, should do it per work unit, that way you can earn more if you have a faster computer!

Or the modern model - per cycle.

True. That might be easiest. Keep in mind it has to be simple, fair, and efficient.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: RedArmy
It would have to be enough to offset the cost of keeping the computer on at least, so somehwere in the middle...a dollar an hour sounds good to me.

Some of the DC guys have software running on 50+ computers, all the time. If you could get anywhere near $1/hr for it, people would be quitting their day jobs in droves.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: codeyf
I'd be in for $0.10/hr. I'd have 3-4 spare machines going at work too

I think that this actually might get a bight from some corporate customers, as they could buy time, but also sell unused time on 24/7 uptime machines. I think that $.20 might be the sweet spot, I need more data.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: codeyf
I'd be in for $0.10/hr. I'd have 3-4 spare machines going at work too

I think that this actually might get a bight from some corporate customers, as they could buy time, but also sell unused time on 24/7 uptime machines. I think that $.20 might be the sweet spot, I need more data.

quite honestly what you need is a better business model.

this idea died a while ago.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: RedArmy
It would have to be enough to offset the cost of keeping the computer on at least, so somehwere in the middle...a dollar an hour sounds good to me.

Some of the DC guys have software running on 50+ computers, all the time. If you could get anywhere near $1/hr for it, people would be quitting their day jobs in droves.

$1/hr is probably too much, that would probably not be practicle. It would probably need to be on the level where you could earn a living managing a farm of 300 machines. That would be a full time job for 1 person.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Tick

Originally posted by: codeyf
I'd be in for $0.10/hr. I'd have 3-4 spare machines going at work too

I think that this actually might get a bight from some corporate customers, as they could buy time, but also sell unused time on 24/7 uptime machines. I think that $.20 might be the sweet spot, I need more data.

quite honestly what you need is a better business model.

this idea died a while ago.

As I've said, I have no intention of starting a buisness doing this.

 

[jumpr]

$0.20/hr. would net me $288/mo., as I have two machines (a P4 server and a Sempron workstation) running 24x7. That's more than pay for my electric bill AND my internet access!

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Tick
As I've said, I have no intention of starting a buisness doing this.

Gotcha.

Pay me by the cycle and my computers are all yours.

Not gonna get something for nothing from me.

8.5 grand a year (dollar an hour) for my processing per year is a bargain.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: jumpr
$0.20/hr. would net me $288/mo., as I have two machines (a P4 server and a Sempron workstation) running 24x7. That's more than pay for my electric bill AND my internet access!

Yeah, but there isn't a real market for this, at least not much of one, so it's moot.

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Tick
As I've said, I have no intention of starting a buisness doing this.

Gotcha.

Pay me by the cycle and my computers are all yours.

Not gonna get something for nothing from me.

Yeah, but there isn't a market, or else someone would be doing it.