On 7/17/2010 2:11 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Q. If I can compute in cloud, in which cloud can I supercompute at an > affordable or sponsored cost? > > I may be a gamer, AE student, Graphic designer, renderer and so forth. > > Now which part of above you did not understand? > > sigh... how I hate my (in)ability to communicate tech to people > inspite of having been kindly classified as a "lightweight fossil" in > this list? Why elders are made to shout when they don't want to? > Everything you listed is interactive realtime or near-realtime graphics intensive. A cloud is not really suited to that kind of task to begin with. And you appear to be additionally attempting to find out if you could use an *existing* cloud (for example Amazon EC2) to do it - meaning not only are you talking about an architecture that isn't really suited to the problem, you are talking about putting it behind *SLOW* network connections to boot. Never-mind how *fast* a cloud is (or is not), you can't move the rendered bits back and forth to a desktop over a remote network connection at any kind of sane speed. -- Benjamin Franz