Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: cyberinfrastructure
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Lessons from Winnie the Pooh: Sustainable Cyberinfrastructure
The longitudinal value of research data often accrues to disciplines other than those where it was created. We need a new model that judiciously balances investment between the “next big thing” and sustainable cyberinfrastructure, for the latter is itself a crucial enabler of discovery.
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Innovation Via Client Plus Cloud: Microsoft-NSF Partnership
Today, February 4, Microsoft and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a collaborative project where Microsoft will offer individual researchers and research groups (selected through NSF’s merit review process) free access to advanced client-plus-cloud computing. Our focus is on empowering researchers via intuitive and familiar client tools whose capabilities extend seamlessly in power and…
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eScience: 21st Century Science
Today, computing is the third pillar of scientific discovery, complementing and mutually enabling theory and experiment.