There is no question there will be plenty of affiliates/CPU time (re)sellers.
The real question is whether there is big enough demand from those who need grid computing.
You had a quote from some quant guy, I suppose sciences is another market, not sure about others.
Here's a blog post we wrote comparing us to Amazon's EC2 for HPC apps: http://pluraprocessing.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/comparing-pl.... Our numbers should be very compelling for certain types of applications compared to the cost of building your own clusters or using an EC2-type service.
There are definitely certain applications where this form of grid or cloud computing (I hate to use such a popular buzzword) will enable apps that weren't possible before. Previous attempts at grid computing for HPC depended more on philanthropy instead of having a scalable business model that allowed the addition of 100s and 1000s of nodes at a time.
1) I think this is a really smart idea, and hope it works well for you. It seems like a win for everybody, as long as the end user knows what's happening.
2) You maybe should look at the phrase on savings in your paper:
"if your application is suitable for Plura, you can save 7X on your compute costs".
I take this to mean you save 7 times your compute costs, where it should be six sevenths of the cost. There's a difference, and your customers will understand it. Sorry if I've just misunderstood.
