Globus Online: Accelerating and Democratizing Science through Cloud-Based Services

Many businesses today save time and money, and increase their agility, by outsourcing mundane IT tasks to cloud providers. The author argues that similar methods can be used to overcome the complexities inherent in increas ingly data-intensive, computational, and collaborative scientific research. H...

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Published inIEEE internet computing Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 70 - 73
Main Author Foster, I
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.05.2011
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Cloud computing
Clouds
Computation
Electronic mail
Facsimile
Globus Online
Information technology
Internet
Internet computing
Keywords: cloud
On-line systems
Online
Outsourcing
science
Servers
Tasks
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Summary:Many businesses today save time and money, and increase their agility, by outsourcing mundane IT tasks to cloud providers. The author argues that similar methods can be used to overcome the complexities inherent in increas ingly data-intensive, computational, and collaborative scientific research. He describes Globus Online, a system that he and his colleagues are developing to realize this vision.
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ISSN:1089-7801
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DOI:10.1109/MIC.2011.64