The document discusses migrating the climateprediction.net project's computing infrastructure to the cloud to address issues with long simulation times and resource constraints. It outlines measuring simulation times on AWS instances, developing a central control system with a scheduler and dashboard to manage cloud resources, and storing simulation outputs in S3. The objectives of enabling simulations in the cloud, creating metrics and reducing costs were achieved, with next steps including migrating the BOINC server and improving scheduler control of clients.