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Cyberinfrastructure to Empower Scientific Research

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Scientific research has experienced a transformation over the last several decades. To tackle today’s grand challenges in science and engineering, researchers today must leverage and integrate the skills and knowledge of team members with computational resources and infrastructure that include data, computing, communications, and high performance computing resources.

Our premise is that cyberinfrastructure today is making a significant impact on how science and engineering research is conducted globally. We briefly describe some cyberinfrastructure systems in use today that demonstrate how science and engineering research is benefiting from these system, and how the capabilities provided by cyberinfrastructure are beginning to transform the ways in which research is conducted, and we lay out a vision for future cyberinfrastructure to further empower research.

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  • Large Hadron Collider
  • Cloud Computing
  • High Performance Computing
  • Compact Muon Solenoid
  • Expressive Power

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  1. Department of Computer & Information Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Thomas Hacker

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Shirley Dyke

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    Andrew Pollard

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA

    Luciano Castillo

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France

    Luminita Danaila

  4. College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA

    Mark Glauser

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Hacker, T., Dyke, S. (2017). Cyberinfrastructure to Empower Scientific Research. In: Pollard, A., Castillo, L., Danaila, L., Glauser, M. (eds) Whither Turbulence and Big Data in the 21st Century?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41217-7_26

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