Cloud never has made sense for scientific computing. Renting someone else's big computer makes good sense in a business setting where you are not paying for yo

Cloud never has made sense for scientific computing. Renting someone else's big computer makes good sense in a business setting where you are not paying for your peak capacity when you are not using it, and you are not losing revenue by underestimating whatever the peak capacity the market happens to dictate. For business, outsourcing compute cost center eliminates both cost and risk for a big win each quarter. Scientists never say, Gee it isn't the holiday season, guess we better scale things back. Instead they will always tend to push whatever compute limit there is, it is kinda in the job description. As for the grant argument, that is letting the tool shape the hand. business-science is not science, we will pay now or pay later.