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Gateway to Go Distributed Computing
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Posted by: TotalRecall
ZDNet reports:
Rather than continue to let the thousands of PCs in its stores sit largely unused, Gateway plans to announce Tuesday a project that will let companies tap into those PCs for large computing projects.
The PC maker is teaming with distributed-computing start-up United Devices to sell the combined computing power of its PCs to companies on a per-hour basis. Gateway plans to charge 15 cents per PC per hour to companies that want to marshal the computational resources of the latest Gateway desktops.
Posted by: SKYHN
Thats only like $187 per year, if they were used 24/7. How would they make any money off that?
Posted by: Bored
$0.15x24x365 = $1314/year/computer.
Oh yeah, they ship ~15000 PCs each day, so that means they average about the same number sitting on the shelf each day. So
15000x$1314 = $19710000.00
Which is enough to open several stores each year and pay the salary of all the new employees.
I'd say that's a nice profit for doing absolutely nothing...
Posted by: SKYHN
whoops. Hit the wrong button the calcumalator 
Posted by: redwench
well, the amount they ship daily has nothing to do with what is sitting in stores.
"Gateway's network of 8,000 PCs can deliver 14 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) of power, very little of which is being used for in-store demos"
so it would be along the lines of
8000x.15x365x18 = 7,884,000
since they do run demos and are subject to power outages and the usual breakdowns. of course, you have to realize that demo computers are generally not sold, or sold at a high discount. add in the cost of electricity. so i would guess that the amount of income this project would generate would cover the replacement cost of the computers, with perhaps some extra if they sell their demos.
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