Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > My aim is to have it all in open source model. Including the revenue > distribution. > Have you looked at Ubuntu's setup? I don't think it deals with GPU's but it might be an easier starting point than building from scratch, and if anything outgrows your resources it can move to Amazon's ec2. http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private But, I think you need to look at storage and compute facilities differently in a cloud model. Storage needs to be HA and redundant. Computing needs to be able to fail and be replaced. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com