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For fast-moving researchers who are blocked by a queue, cloud computing still makes sense. I guess I wasn't clear enough in the last section about how I still u
by lebovic 4y ago
For fast-moving researchers who are blocked by a queue, cloud computing still makes sense. I guess I wasn't clear enough in the last section about how I still use AWS for startup-scale computational biology. My scientific computing startup (trytoolchest.com) is 100% built on top of AWS.
Most scientific computing still happens on supercomputers in slower moving academic or big co settings. That's the group for whom cloud computing – or at least running everything on the cloud – doesn't make sense.
- adolph 4y agoAnother service that runs on AWS is CodeOcean. It looks like Toolchest is oriented toward facilitating execution of specific packages rather than organization and execution like CodeOcean. Is that a fair summary? https://codeocean.com/explore https://codeocean.com/explore
- lebovic 4y agoYep, that's right! Toolchest focuses on compute, deploying and optimizing popular scientific computing packages.