What can I do with a VM?

What can I do with a computer?
- Desktop GUI, watch movies, listen to music, browse the web
  (possible, but maybe your laptop would be better?)
- Store data, host websites, run web-scrapers
  (probably better on a VM)
What are researchers doing on CC clouds?
- Scrape data from web (e.g. curl, wget,Beautiful Soup)
  - Run programs at scheduled times (e.g. cron)
- File sharing/storage (e.g. Globus, sftp, http)
- Running web-servers

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