The ISTI Rapid Response on Exploring Cloud Computing 2018
This addresses the problem of computational resource access for scientific researchers at national laboratories, but it is incremental as it builds on existing cloud technologies.
The report examined the use of commercial cloud computing for scientific computation at national laboratories through eighteen demonstration projects, finding that cloud computing can be a valuable resource for this purpose.
This report describes eighteen projects that explored how commercial cloud computing services can be utilized for scientific computation at national laboratories. These demonstrations ranged from deploying proprietary software in a cloud environment to leveraging established cloud-based analytics workflows for processing scientific datasets. By and large, the projects were successful and collectively they suggest that cloud computing can be a valuable computational resource for scientific computation at national laboratories.