This distributed computing system was announced by Sun long ago but officially went live on March 22, allowing customers to purchase processing power over the Internet. However, on its very first day, one of the system’s applications fell victim to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.
The attack targeted the text-to-speech program developed by Callidus Software, which was hosted on the grid computing network provided by Sun. In response to this incident, Sun was forced to “evacuate” the aforementioned application, and currently, only fully registered customers are allowed to log in and use it.
Last year, Sun intended to open access to this computing grid for everyone, but a series of issues caused delays that pushed back the official release date until this week.
Sun’s grid computing service enables everyone to access computing resources directly over the Internet and make online payments via PayPal. The fee is set at $1 per CPU per hour of use. For more information, visit http://www.network.com.
