Can cloud computing replace supercomputers like Blue Waters in the future? No, says Vijay Pande, director of the biophysics program at Stanford University. He says both are critical to his study of serious diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer. Pande's lab uses cloud computing through Google Exacycle to run many detailed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of protein folding independent of one another. Google's computing infrastructure supplies all the computing power and researchers apply for time. This example of cloud computing (also called distributed computing), is great for raw computing power as long as input/output (I/O) and communication requirements are low. To read further, please visit http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/cloud_super_computing_results.