Sun's grid computing service goes global

Sun Microsystems Inc. is expanding its Network.com utility computing service from the U.S. to 23 countries in Europe and Asia, the company said Thursday.

The utility computing service, in which customers pay an hourly rate for access to a Sun data center, began as a U.S.-only pilot in March but is now ready for a large geographic expansion, said Rohit Valia, group product manager for the Sun Grid Compute Utility.

Sun charges $1 per CPU per hour to access a network of Sun x64 hardware running the Solaris 10 operating system. End users can now access the utility from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and the U.K.

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