I've heard some rumour of a startup company in stealth mode in boulder doing exactly that. I'd expect that IBM may combine its cell processor and upcoming Blue Cloud initiaves at some point too.
Why stop at graphics processors ? Another rumour is that a quantum computing company may offer its services through a cloud initiative too - makes sense since it takes near kelvin temperatures to operate quantum computer :)
From: Khazret Sapenov <sap@gmail.com>
Sent: June 11, 2008 7:46 PM
To: cloud-computing@googlegroups.com
Subject: GPU-based Compute Cloud
What do you think about compute cloud, powered by general purpose GPUs (graphics processing units), dedicated entirely to stream processing?
It'll provide good(cheap?) facilities for evolutionary computation or media processing (e.g. transcoding video files).
I've read that SUN is working in this direction (apparently due to inoptimal price/performance ratio), and Apple just makes alternative to CUDA, which eventually is one step further to commodity GPGPUs, suitable for cloud.
cheers,
Khaz Sapenov
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