Two years ago, Bio-IT World first reported on a little-known topic of “cloud computing,” when former BioTeam consultant Mike Cariaso recounted his early experiments with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It turned out his colleagues were also dabbling with the cloud, and they soon realized that this was more than just a cute toy for computer geeks.
The Taverna project aims to provide a language and software tools to facilitate easy use of workflow and distributed compute technology within the eScience community