Supercomputers for rent.

While harnessing unused desktop CPU cycles via the Internet has become the basis of a trendy cottage industry, Computer Sciences Corp is coming in at the other end of the distributed computing spectrum. They plan to offer "companies in biotechnology, engineering, seismic exploration and mapping or molecular science" processing time on their banks of supercomputers for a pay-per-use fee. Interfacing to the new service will be done through the Internet at their High Performance Computing site. No mention of just what the fee is going to be, but it does suggest that there is money to be made. This bodes well for all the newly hatched commercial distributed computing companies (e.g. Dcypher.net, Centrata) which hope to process the same sort of large data sets that CSC is after.