The lab I work for tried to do this for a few years. But the problem with this (cloud computing + storing in remote repository + trying to do reproducible scien

The lab I work for tried to do this for a few years. But the problem with this (cloud computing + storing in remote repository + trying to do reproducible science + collaborative scientific computing) is always a tough sell. The idea is neat. Everyone likes it. But transiting to the remote platform, letting others to host and keep your data, and not always accessible to the machine is a tough sell. That's why some scientists are going to use Google's Compute Engine. They just need the machines. The researchers have their own C++ and Python scripts. They can live with some complexity. They are happy with HTCondor which is awesome for running big computational jobs. Sharing data results with the world is awesome. But transiting to a new platform is again a big problem.