On Nov. 1st, part of our team participated in the 2013 NSF DALI workshop (http://www.ws13.dynali.org/). We had the opportunity to interact with a group of amazing individuals from very diverse backgrounds in science, software, and data analytics. There were experts in R, Matlab, runtime systems, cloud platforms, and computational science. The list of talks is available here: http://www.ws13.dynali.org/talks.html. We presented our approach to cloud platforms for scalable simulations and data analytics.