Infrastructure for science portals

Author

Smarr, Larry

Author_Institution

Nat. Center for Supercomput. Applications, Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL

Volume

4

Issue

1

fYear

2000

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

73

Abstract

A major driver of Internet growth has been the USA´s decades-long national policy of funding basic research and infrastructure prototyping in its universities. This unique national system has enabled universities to experiment with capabilities years ahead of their mass commercial distribution. From Arpanet to NSFnet, this far-reaching partnership between government, universities and industry planted the seeds that grew into the modern cyberworld. More recently, NCSA Mosaic and NCSA´s Web server software catalyzed the development of the World Wide Web. This “explore the future” methodology has been institutionalized in the National Science Foundation´s Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program. Each PACI partnership brings together dozens of leading researchers at some 75 institutions to create the services necessary to prototype a seamless, integrated computational and collaborative environment known as the Grid

Keywords

Internet; groupware; natural sciences computing; research initiatives; Arpanet; Grid; Internet growth; NCSA Mosaic; NSFnet; National Science Foundation; PACI; Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure; USA; Web server software; World Wide Web; basic research funding; collaborative environment; cyberworld; future; government-industry-academia partnership; infrastructure prototyping; integrated computational environment; national policy; science portals infrastructure; universities; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Government; Grid computing; Internet; Portals; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Web server; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4236.815867

Filename

815867