The term “cyberinfrastructure” was developed by a United States National Science Foundation (NSF) blue-ribbon committee in 2003 in response to the question: how can NSF, as the nation’s premier agency funding basic research, remove existing barriers to the rapid evolution of high performance computing, making it truly usable by all the nation’s scientists,engineers, scholars, and citizens?
Cyberinfrastructure describes the new research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services over the Internet. In scientific usage, cyberinfrastructure is a technological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting data, computers, and people with the goal of enabling derivation of novel scientific theories and knowledge.
“One of the key conclusions of the President’s commission that laid the intellectual framework for the President’s announcement today was that while we certainly have a history of some real attacks, some very serious, to our “cyber-infrastructure”, the real threat lay in the future. And we can’t say whether that’s tomorrow or years hence.”
- Dr. Jeffrey Hunker, Professor of Technology and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
The GSA Technology Council will discuss Cyberinfrastructure, and Clemson University’s programs to develop a strong, resilent set of systems designed to propel the university into “Top 20″ status at it’s June 4, 2008 lunch meeting.
The GSATC Learning Lunch program, led by Clemson’s Chief Technology Officer and Director of High Performance Computing, Jim Pepin, is open to the public. The GSATC meets June 4, 2008, from 11:30 AM until 1:00 PM at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Greenville, SC. RSVP online at www.GSATC.org. Lunch is $15 in advance, $20 at the door.