[CAnet - news] Science 2.0 - Service Oriented Science

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http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com/
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[A presentation I highly recommend is one given by Ian Foster at a recent
D-Grid meeting.  There are many important concepts included in that
presentation that are well worth investigating further. These new concepts
are often referred to Web 2.0, others call it the participatory web, and
still others call it user controlled processes - but essentially it is a new
of thinking about doing science and business processes. The first generation
of grids and eScience involved a strong coupling between the application and
the underlying computational infrastructure.  The second generation, built
around Web 2.0 and SOA will empower many more users to deploy service
oriented science where people create services independent of any specific
computational infrastructure which anyone can discover. Other third party
users can then compose these services with workflow tools to create a new
function which then can be published as a new service to the global
community.  Users can now decouple their applications from the computational
infrastructure and select best of breed facilities anywhere in the world -
including commercial services such as Amazon Ec2 --BSA]


http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/Talks/Scaling%20eScience%20IBERGrid.pdf

Also highly recommended is Ian Foster's log at
http://ianfoster.typepad.com/blog/






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