[CAnet - news] Private sector cyber-infrastructure tools assist researchers

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 [Excellent article from Charlie Catlett's blog. Right now there is an
explosion of new innovation cyber-infrastructure tools coming from the
private sector that will be of great use to researchers. Another good
example is Inocbye (www.inocbye.ca) which is building grid enabled
instrument interfaces, etc -- BSA]

http://teragrid.typepad.com/whiteboard/2007/01/tapping_private.html

Tapping Private Sector Innovation

NASA, with as strong a history of technical innovation as any Federal
agency, has been making the news recently initiating partnerships with
Google, Inc. . Originally announced late last year without specific details,
one of their first joint projects was detailed this week - applying Google
search technology to help scientists process, organize, and analyze the
large-scale streams of data coming from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
(LSST), located in Chile.

Earlier last year the data produced by NASA's Stardust spacecraft was made
available for "crowdsource" style analysis by UC Berkeley's Stardust@home
project.  Interestingly, Berkeley partnered with another private sector
innovator - Amazon - to use Amazon's S3 web services based storage to store
the millions of images resulting from the Stardust project.

These are excellent examples of Federal agencies tapping the expertise and
innovation of private sector companies.  It will be interesting to see how
other projects might take advantage of the technology and services being
developed in projects like this.  The  Large Hadron Collider, for example,
is set to go online later this year.  I wonder if we will be able to Google
that data!


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