In a guest blog "Effervescent Clouds: Nimble Computing Infrastructure" on the HPC in the Cloud project CloudLightning, Daniel Reed explains what Cloud computing is, or could be. "What's a cloud? It's an elastic, on-demand, often geo-distributed, frequently virtualized, flexible hardware, software and services infrastructure that powers the 21st century knowledge economy. And that is really important right now." Got it?
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