SOMN (which the article is about) sounds really interesting.  They've done their site out to show the use cases that SOMN will be used for:

Essential scientific calculations which constantly require massive computing power are easily run on SONM
– social statistics
– climate predictions
– bioinformatics
– aerodynamic calculations
– drug development
– modeling
– meteors trajectory modelling

And that's just one small part of it.  They talk about deploying game servers, neural network projects.  They've certainly got their PR together.