[DOWNLOAD] "Cyberinfrastructure and the Future of Collaborative Work: Online Sharing of Data, Computing Power, And Expensive Equipment Is Transforming Research and Blazing the Trail for Widespread Advances in Cooperative Efforts in All Human Endeavors." by Issues in Science and Technology " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Cyberinfrastructure and the Future of Collaborative Work: Online Sharing of Data, Computing Power, And Expensive Equipment Is Transforming Research and Blazing the Trail for Widespread Advances in Cooperative Efforts in All Human Endeavors.
- Author : Issues in Science and Technology
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 386 KB
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One of the most stunning aspects of the information technology (IT) revolution has been the speed at which specialized, high-performance tools and capabilities originally developed for specific research communities evolve into products, services, and infrastructure used more broadly by scientists and engineers, and even by the mass public. The Internet itself is the best example of this phenomenon. We have come to expect that the performance of one era's "high-end" tool or application will be matched or exceeded by the next era's desktop software or machine. Although the funding of IT-intensive research communities is justified by the results they produce in their own domains, the added value that they provide by proving concepts, developing features, and "breaking in" the technology to the point where it can be adapted to serve larger markets can in some cases have even greater social and economic benefit. Cyberinfrastructure-enabled research is one area in which today's cutting-edge researchers are building the foundation for a quantum leap in IT capability. Taking advantage of very-high-bandwidth Internet connections, researchers are able to connect remotely to supercomputers, electron microscopes, particle accelerators, and other expensive equipment so that they can acquire data and work with distant colleagues without traveling. There are several drivers of this trend.