July 2, 2006
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NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) (05/02/06) Myers, Jim
NCSA is focusing on researching and developing the advanced management and connection capabilities that scientists and engineers will demand of cyberenvironments in the future, writes NCSA associate director Jim Myers. The integrated, end-to-end software systems promise to usher in a new day of seamless cyberinfrastructure accessibility and usability, helping to ensure that the loss of human knowledge does not become an unintended consequence of modern technology. Aside from developing more sophisticated service abstractions, NCSA is at work on new capabilities for automating or semi-automating processes. Those include visual knowledge discovery, which involves the use of data analysis to categorize, cluster, and extract features from large data sets, along with interactive visualization. New tools for managing semantic information about data and resources will enable functions such as provenance tracking, annotation, and collaborative data curation. Meanwhile, technologies such as Web and grid services, translating or integrating middleware, global unique identifiers and metadata, workflow and provenance, and semantic descriptions of resources and data are all being used to align cyberinfrastructure with cyberenvironments. Although cyberenvironments are viewed as a gateway for accessing all sorts of computing capabilities from sensor arrays to visualization tools, NCSA sees their potential in re-engineering science and engineering research processes.
For the complete article, see http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Stories/Myers/
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