Computing on demand: the Cloud meets the GRID
Collaborators at the Belle/Belle II computing group just completed a series of successful exercises using a combination of Amazon' s Cloud computing resources and the Belle II distributed computing GRID resources. DIRAC, a software package used to link the two distributed computing resources, was developed by the LHCb Collaboration and adapted by the Belle/Belle II team in collaboration with scientists at the LHCb computing group from Barcelona. The cost-effective nature of commercial Cloud computing may benefit all parts of the scientific community.