Title :
Globus Online: Accelerating and Democratizing Science through Cloud-Based Services
Author_Institution :
Argonne Nat. Lab., Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
cloud computing; groupware; natural sciences computing; outsourcing; Globus Online; IT tasks outsourcing; cloud based services; cloud providers; collaborative scientific research; Cloud computing; Electronic mail; Facsimile; Outsourcing; Servers; Globus Online; Internet computing; Keywords: cloud; outsourcing; science;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2011.64
