Paper: BCE: Berkeley's Common Scientific Compute Environment for Research and Education (Dav Clark)

Please accept this paper for now - it's in terrible shape, but I promise I'll clean it up. I just wanted to be sure to send a pull request for *something* in time for the deadline (and I'm teaching at an R bootcamp now... oops).
This is a *very* bold statement without a strong argument to defend it.  Your proposed solution (as far as I can tell) is to provide a machine image configured using administrative access.  There have been some experimental academic provision clouds (see FutureGrid), but the majority of HPC resources are provided on non-virtualized instances, which means that administrative access is not possible.  You should either qualify, expand, or drop this discussion.