{"id":1949,"date":"2006-04-01T18:11:25","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T23:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2006-04-01T18:11:25","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T23:11:25","slug":"new-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/01\/new-company\/","title":{"rendered":"New Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu\/ps2\/ps2_cluster_pic_02.jpg\" align=\"left\" title=\"datacenter\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vpsace=\"10\"\/>Lots of people have been asking me what I&#8217;ll be doing now that I&#8217;m no longer working at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspace.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rackspace <\/a>full time.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel like explaining the entire business in detail, but I&#8217;ve had a fascination with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grid_computing\" target=\"_blank\">grid computing <\/a> and the virtualization of software services across computational clusters for sometime<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, anyone who knows me, knows that I&#8217;m fascinated with repurposing hardware (both electronic or otherwise) to do new and different things.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow &#8211; last year, I spent some time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sc05.supercomputing.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Supercomputing &#8217;05 conference<\/a> in Seattle.  There, I met lots of great hardware engineers and software developers.  Since then, lots of us continued talking and we formed a new company. Over the past few months we have been building a new low-cost datacenter and setting up our own state-of-the-art computational cluster in a secret warehouse using Sony Playstation 2&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of innovation and ingenuity I&#8217;ve seen with this new team rivals that of any tech company including Google and even Space-X.  I&#8217;m very proud of what has been accomplished in such a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p>We are in the middle closing our A-series round of founding of about $27.5million and if goes well, look for the official announcement of my new Grid Hosting Company(tm) later this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people have been asking me what I&#8217;ll be doing now that I&#8217;m no longer working at Rackspace full time. I don&#8217;t feel like explaining the entire business in detail, but I&#8217;ve had a fascination with grid computing and the virtualization of software services across computational clusters for sometime Additionally, anyone who knows me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}