Sun and Utility Computing

Jonathan Schwartz writes about Sun's Grid - its next iteration of utility computing. One of my 2006 predictions was they (or Dell) would, but several folks felt like their experience and lack of customer uptake in the first go-around would discourage them.

Jonathan is pretty excited - as he says  "experience for yourself what it's like to use one of the world's largest supercomputers. Without having to house it, manage it, power it, administer it, provision it... or buy it." Hardware as a service ...