In today's Chronicle of Higher Education, Florence Olsen surveys various projects to build grid computing platforms for scientific research. "An example of such infrastructure is the Extensible Terascale Facility. In 2003, scientists and engineers will begin using that grid, which network-computing experts say will be the world's largest and fastest grid for open, scientific research. The National Science Foundation is spending $88-million on the research grid, whose computing power will be on the order of 20 trillion operations per second."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/27/2002 09:31:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
