A great selection of resources. What is e-Science?
The term e-Science refers to large scale science that is carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet. Typically, such collaborative scientific enterprises require access to very large data sets, very large scale computing resources, and high performance visualization. e-Science is a digital infrastructure that allows scientists to conduct research in new ways. Common terminology related to e-Science include cyberinfrastructure, grids, grid computing, distributed networks, and high performance computing.
Projects often involve collaboration between large teams, developed and managed by research laboratories, large universities, and governments. In the United States these are primarily funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, which support the nation’s supercomputing centers. Bioinformatics, earth sciences, and high-energy physics are examples of scientific disciplines with significant e-Science projects.
This compilation is a collection of print and electronic resources on e-Science, and is designed, as the name of the series implies, “to put the reader on target.”
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