Streamlining science with cyberenvironments

Cyberenvironments and Technologies Directorate leader
Jim Myers

All the hammers and all the nails in the world can't build a house; tools alone just aren't enough to get the job done. It's the same in the world of cyberscience. The advantages of the national cyberinfrastructure won't be realized unless scientists and engineers are empowered to tap its capabilities. To that end, NCSA is developing cyberenvironments to enable scientists and engineers to take full advantage of the nation's cyber-resources to drive scientific and engineering advances.

Cyberenvironments will integrate distributed computing and data resources into end-to-end scientific processes, providing a boost in productivity. Cyberenvironments include scientific and engineering applications, graphical user interfaces and portals for easy interaction with the applications, and workflow and collaboration software, as well as an integrated data analysis and visualization capability. They couple traditional desktop scientific and engineering applications with national and global cyber-resources to provide researchers an unprecedented capability to assemble, integrate, automate, and manage complex, collaborative projects.

Cyberenvironments will ensure that the capabilities in the national cyberinfrastructure can be brought to bear on the most challenging science and engineering issues facing the nation and the world.

Go to the website of the Cyberenvironments and Technologies Directorate for more information.