Thanks for the great sum-up. I thought I’d share a quick “Day Four” note, for those of you considering this approach for your own applications:

The only difference between a grid computer, and a massively distributed denial-of-service, is whether or not you’ve got server-side brakes.

Uptake has been much faster than I expected, and I’ve had to throttle the polling down this morning, since I’ve been pegged close to 100% cpu and a full T1’s worth of traffic for the last two days.

So, keep that in mind – being able to turn the heat down, without releasing a new version, is more than just “a good thing”.

Grid computing – FTW!