Bringing your HPC workloads to the cloud is a daunting challenge at first. You’ve probably got decades of history built into your current on-premises system. You know it inside and out. You know all of its strengths and its warts. You probably spent a considerable amount of time testing and honing it so that it worked “just so”. But now, your CIO or your VP or your Director has a new cloud initiative and suddenly you must come up with a plan to translate decades of custom work and tuning into a public cloud setup. Where to begin?