Cloud ‘Commons’ would accelerate biomedical research
January 9, 2015
Grazed from GCN. Author: Editorial Staff.
The National Institutes of Health aims to launch an electronic “Commons,” a community-controlled cloud infrastructure that would support collective uses of computing, storage and data for biomedical research by NIH and its academic and industry collaborators. NIH’s Office of Data Science is in the process of prototyping the Commons, which it described as “a shared computing environment that takes advantage of emerging cloud computing and existing high-performance computing resources.”
In a sources-sought notice for contributors, NIH noted that its biomedical and health sciences research was fast outgrowing the means – through journal articles, scientific conferences and simple networks – to circulate data to the research community. Instead, biomedical researchers need a new mechanism that is scalable, straightforward to use and could take advantage of emergent cloud and high-performance computing resources, said NIH…
“Transforming this data into knowledge requires that it be made broadly accessible, easily computable and readily sharable among those that are qualified to evaluate it,” according to the notice…
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