High-Performance Computing (HPC) researchers found in Cloud Computing a viable alternative to execute their workloads instead, or expanded the capability, of a cluster or a supercomputer. Several applications were successful migrated to the Cloud, such as weather prediction numerical models, genomics, seismic simulation, among others. However, normally the applications are migrated to the Cloud "as is" without modifications that can take advantages of the cloud model.
Author: Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux, professor at the Universidade Federal of Rio Grande do Sul and Computer Science Area Director of CAPES