For some chemists (mostly theoretical chemists), they benefit from systems which are up 24x7. For researcher who don't have such persistent needs, they may be able to save enormous amounts using the cloud by paying only for the resources you actually use. |
CIT's experience with this service, "The big win is this allows us to easily and quickly build applications from the OS all the way up the stack. It also allows us to easily move containers or images to different cloud providers if that is of interest."
Some staff in CIT are familiar with the services in Amazon and how to save money by utilizing automation and services.
HPC Trends from the Trenches 2016 Edition - Chris Dagdigian (1 hour)
Above video referenced two sites:
Sample extract from the second web site:
Computational science is hard. Computational research is even harder. Duplicating computational results is next to impossible. Why is it so hard?