%0 Conference Proceedings %B CCGrid2014, the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing %D 2014 %T A simple drop and compute model for a SaaS cloud infrastructure for advanced research computing: the experiences of building OBOE, the Oxford Batch Operation Engine %A Caithness, Neil %A Thurston, Milo %E Ng, Esmond G. %C Chicago, Illinois, USA %I IEEE Computer Science Press; IEEE Digital Library %X We describe our experiences in building a web-based platform for cloud service integration for advanced community research computing within the context of a large funded project. %> https://vbrant.scratchpads.org/sites/vbrant.scratchpads.org/files/ccgrid2014_submission_177_2.pdf