> I've long had in the back of my mind some kind of cloud-based platform for writing, running, storing, and sharing scientific code.
And now there are 15 competing standards.
Everyone uses the computing resources available at their institution, and each institution makes its own choices. Running someone else's code almost always involves migrating it to a new environment. Even using something as common as Docker is problematic, as it doesn't always interact nicely with the rest of the environment (such as Slurm).
And now there are 15 competing standards.
Everyone uses the computing resources available at their institution, and each institution makes its own choices. Running someone else's code almost always involves migrating it to a new environment. Even using something as common as Docker is problematic, as it doesn't always interact nicely with the rest of the environment (such as Slurm).