Now that we are live, we are starting to join the many discussions about how engineering / math / science computation will change as the benefits of the cloud have become apparent. Two bloggers we’ve been following – Krishnan Subramanian and Hans Gilde – have both written about the topic.
Krishnan’s original post at CloudAve – MATLAB on Clouds – mentions a whitepaper describing how individuals could run MATLAB in Amazon’s cloud. Very cool stuff, however this still requires that (a) you obtain an (expensive) MATLAB license, and (b) you also maintain your own Amazon cloud machines, storage, and payment account. Not very convenient if you just want to get some computing done inexpensively while benefitting from the cloud.
Hans’ picked up the theme with his post on Matlab, Mathematica in the Cloud – echoing the strong user demand for such abilities, looking forward to R joining the discussion (as do we – if you want R, let us know… we’re still figuring out which computational engines to add next).
These are but two of many interested professionals who see the need we saw. We think that cloud customers want more than just the ability to roll their own computation system – at the companies we worked at, much overhead was spent on managing the computation systems as opposed to actually doing computations. True cloud computing abstracts the underpinnings and exposes what users truly want – instant access to features while removing the annoyance of running your own servers and managing your own data.
Monkey Analytics truly delivers Matlab in the cloud. And we’re joining the discussion so that we can spread the gospel. Feel free to join our part of the discussion here in the comments!