Novel Software Containers for Engineering and Scientific Simulations in the Cloud

The adoption of cloud computing for engineering and scientific applications is still lagging behind, although many cloud providers today offer powerful computing infrastructure as a service, and enterprises are already making routine use of it. Reasons for this slow adoption are many: complex access to clouds, inflexible software licensing, time-consuming big data transfer, loss of control over their assets, service provider lock-in, to name a few. But recently, with the advent of the UberCloud's novel high-performance software container technology, many of these roadblocks are currently being removed. In this paper the authors describe the current status and landscape of clouds for engineers and scientists, the benefits and challenges, and how UberCloud is providing an online solution platform and container technology which reduce or even remove many of the current roadblock, and thus offer every engineer and scientist additional compute power on demand, in an easily accessible way.