OK who is wants to get one?

Here's how it works. Qarnot sells time on your Q.RAD to banks, animation houses that need rendering farms, and anyone else that might normally turn to a data center for high-end computing. On the other end of the business, Qarnot sells you, the consumer, the Q.RAD for €3,500 (US$3,761). Qarnot then uses your Q.RAD, along with hundreds of other Q.RADs, to perform those processing tasks bought by the banks and other users.

In other words, the processing is distributed out to the remote Q.RADs spread throughout the land, and it's done similarly to the way SETI@home works. Each task is broken into multiple parts, encrypted, sent out to the Q.RADs where the numbers are crunched (still encrypted), and reassembled by Qarnot.



http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2...now-plugged-data-centers/

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/q.rad-...om-distributed-processing