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I can't really comment on the total cost of software as we've rolled our own grid in-house and just leased a big rack that's located in a server room. What you need to consider though is that if you intend to utilize your grid 24/7 it can become quite expensive to use external services such as Amazon and/ or rackspace. We've done a few scenarios and found ...

Consider constructing some VMs, and letting the tasks involve starting the VM and running the task on that. This should clear up the trickiest part, scheduling jobs to run on the right machine with the right requirements, as you'd build VM images with all the needed pieces installed, and it wouldn't depend on which machine was requesting the job. If you do ...

Take a look at the following, it does not indicate cost but I found it an interesting starting point into estimating the cost (whether you can implement open-source components or have to go completely proprietary): http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/DesktopGrid and an implementation example http://desktopgrid.hu/ I like this site because you get ...