looks like amazon gives you up to a year to try out some free cpu time on their cloud computing nodes.
http://aws.amazon.com/free/terms/
also, their spot instances allow you to bid for time, rather than paying the fixed on-demand rates. looks like the discount is significant, if you can handle the unpredictability. nice example of running a jenkins build slave on spot, too. also refs princeton consultants and their optispotter, which helps smallish ($50mil) hedge funds find hft opportunities.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vAAuTs9iu4
picloud still looks like a good way to get started. can do fractional hours, and prices are comparable to ec2 on-demand. they allow you to create an environment on a virtual ubuntu, so you can install whatever you need as if you had a local filesystem.
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/picloud-and-princeton-consultants-win-the-first-amazon-ec2-spotathon.html
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