My ex-InhibOx colleagues (Simone Fulle, Garrett Morris, Paul Finn) and myself have recently published a topical review on “The emerging role of cloud computing in molecular modelling” in the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. Â This paper starts with a gentle and in-depth introduction to the field of cloud computing. Â The second part of the paper is how it applies to molecular modelling (and the sort of tasks we can run in the cloud). Â The third and last part presents two practical case studies of cloud computations, one of which describes how we built a virtual library to use in virtual screening on AWS.
We hope that after reading this article the cloud will become a less nebulous affair! *pun intended*
As an addendum, I recently came across this paper “Teaching cloud computing: A software engineering perspective” (2013) on how to teach cloud computing at a graduate level. Â This work is relevant, because lots of universities are presently including cloud computing in their curricula.
Very impressive, comrade. Congratulations, well done.