Hi guys. There's a service in New Zealand called Green Button that provides pay-as-you-go (1 US cent/CPU minute), on-demand cluster/grid access. Although technically you can submit anything through a special Firefox-based frontend, the easiest way to get processing to take place is to submit jobs via plugins to existing/approved third-party software (e.g. Geneious, Blender).
http://www.greenbutton.co.nz/ Green Button is a front to the InterGrid project, which is a seriously powerful grid/cluster (the same one used to render the Lord of the Rings movies): http://www.intergrid.co.nz/TechnicalStats.aspx I think there's serious potential for the remote-execution Taverna features to work with things like this (as/when those remote-execution features are fully functional!). The main reason is that unlike many other grids available at present (e.g. NBIC/SARA), Green Button is available for commercial access meaning anyone can use it for anything, academic or not. Could Taverna make use of this? If so, who do people think would be the most appropriate groups to approach to find funding for development? cheers, Richard -- Richard Holland, BSc MBCS Finance Director, Eagle Genomics Ltd T: +44 (0)1223 654481 ext 3 | E: [email protected] http://www.eaglegenomics.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ taverna-hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/taverna-hackers Developers Guide: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/usermanual1.7/dev_guide.html FAQ: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/Mygrid/TavernaFaq
