iPlant atmosphere
Edwin J. Skidmore, Seungjin Kim, Sangeeta Kuchimanchi, Sriramu Singaram, Nirav C. Merchant, Dan Stanzione · 2011
The cloud platform complements traditional compute and storage infrastructures by introducing capabilities for efficiently provisioning resources in a self-service, on-demand manner. The new provisioning model promises to accelerate scientific discovery by improving access to customizable and task-specific computing resources. This paradigm is well-suited, especially for those applications tailored to leverage cloud-style of infrastructure capabilities.