Culture around cloud needs to change in research community

February 13, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from FedScoop.  Author:  Greg Otto.

In a sentiment familiar to those who follow the federal IT community, a number of research experts say the culture around scientific discoveries needs to change if scientists are to fully harness the capabilities of cloud computing.
 
Work like discovering gravitational waves or research tied to the Human Genome Project produce an astounding amount of data, which need to be shared amongst multiple scientific outlets if researchers are to answer the pressing problems of our time. Experts from the public, private and academic sectors all agreed Friday at a Center for Data Innovation event that silos need to be knocked down to make sense of the mountains of data associated with their projects…

 
“The problems we are trying to address are much more complex than ever before,” said Phil Bourne, associate director for data science at the National Institutes of Health. “We can’t solve them with one person sitting in a garage anymore.”  Angel Pizarro, who works on Amazon Web Services’ Scientific and Research Computing Team, said sharing the data tied to scientific discoveries gives a multitude of groups the ability to scale various breakthroughs to meet their unique needs…

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