I finished a personal project I have been working on nights and weekends.  It is a multi-client, C#, computing grid that performs a simple, yet computationally intensive process across computers in the Cloud.

The system uses Windows 2003 servers, SQL and shared file access that is all hosted in Amazon’s EC2 server farm.  The amazing thing is how well it all works.  The Windows 2003 servers are available on EC2 within 5 minutes of activation, the SQL server is responsive and manageable via SSMS and with the right firewalling all of the servers share files behind the Cloud.

Next steps?  Programatically turning on/off the EC2 servers as needed.  That’s right, you can script the creation and termination of servers to coincide with the demand of the application.  All this for $0.125 to $0.30 per server hour.  This is going to be good….