I do not have experience actually installing CCP on the resources themselves. I got on a call with some guys from Cisco and they showed me the software stack that supports CCP. They use VMware's a vSphere and, under that, is UCS but I can't comment on how easy it is to deploy CCP.

I'm sure it's possible for just one person to deploy it.

In terms of maintenance, within our lab I'm the cloud architect. I'm the main point of contact with Cisco as far as engineering development with CCP and the partnership with Clemson University go. I'm the only one who is creating and managing these clusters. Everyone else is focusing on the genomics, on the science, and on that genetics research. There are about six people who are using these clusters. They're the people who are actually running the workflows, pulling the data, and trying to analyze it to figure out gene interactions that contribute to causing cancer.