Sun expanded its global grid computing service

The announcement last week by Sun Microsystems said the company has expanded Network.com application computing services from the US to 23 countries in Europe and Asia.

According to Sun Grid Compute Utility product group manager, starting in March, Sun has begun to deploy Network.com application network testing in the US and charge an hourly fee for individuals accessing Sun's data center.

Sun charges $ 1 / CPU / hour to access the Sun's x64 hardware data network running its Solaris 10 operating system. With the latest expansion plan, end users can access and use the power of this system from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany. , Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and England.

Not only does Sun, IBM, HP and a number of other computer vendors offer similar applications, also called computers on demand (on-demand computing). This service is for companies or businesses that need the power to process computers (often temporarily) for related jobs without having to buy or equip expensive data centers. This solution is also considered the best cost-saving way for businesses today.

Sun is also adding a feature called Network.com Internet Access, which enables its customers to communicate with each other through Sun's application data center to the Internet. In addition, Sun also provides a limited Job Management Application Programming Interfaces for developers that allow them to use Network.com to conduct product inspections to build applications. use software.