Is your number crunching program geared towards a mass market; or a 'once in a while' report run by a single company?
I would expect the two markets to have very different requirements.
I would expect the two markets to have very different requirements.
Neither of the above, though this specific type of work might be unique to the project in question for all I know.
I also don't know how many other projects with unusual or unique long-running tasks are out there. However, given that there are hundreds of millions of people, if not billions now, with personal computers, I imagine the answer is well into "quite a lot, actually" territory.