May be worth looking at rightscale: http://www.rightscale.com/products/plans-pricing/grid-edition.php The article there is only and only cites EC2 usage, but their API's support Rackspace cloud which is Nova http://support.rightscale.com/12-Guides/RightScale_API Cheers David On 2 Dec 2011, at 12:17, Sandy Walsh wrote: > I've recently had inquiries about High Performance Computing (HPC) on Openstack. As opposed to the Service Provider (SP) model, HPC is interested in fast provisioning, potentially short lifetime instances with precision metrics and scheduling. Real-time vs. Eventually. > > Anyone planning on using Openstack in that way? > > If so, I'll direct those inquires to this thread. > > Thanks in advance, > Sandy > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp