The RAPPORT (Rapid APplication PORTing for scientific applications in the cloud) project, one of the Pilot projects in JISC/EPSRCs current Cloud Computing in Research programme, has now been running for four months and in this post we’ll look at progress with analysing our set of different applications and running them on Cloud resources. RAPPORT is … Read more

There are now many examples of how Cloud Computing infrastructure has delivered real-world benefits in the operation and management of large-scale distributed applications. Awareness of the technology continues to grow but there are still many areas where this awareness has not yet been translated into widespread use. One such area, we feel, is HPC-based scientific … Read more