Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah
A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research to better understand our planet, our bodies and the limits of the Internet.
The National Science Foundation initiative called Cluster Exploratory or the CLuE program is a partnership between I.B.M. and Google to put scientists to work solving the problem of how to deal with so much information.
The answer? Cloud computing. Using virtual locations online to cope with the large data stream will allow science to answer some big and complex questions.
Top 8 in the Science Cloud:
Sloan Digital Sky Survey–obtained deep, multi-color images covering more than a quarter of the sky and created 3-dimensional maps containing more than 930,000 galaxies and more than 120,000 quasars.
Visible Human–is an anatomical data set licensed from the National Library of Medicine, Visible Human Project.
IRIS Seismology Database–allows you to monitor global earthquakes in near real-time, visit seismic stations around the world, and search the web for earthquake or region-related information.
Protein Data Bank–contains information about experimentally-determined structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies.
Linguistic Data Consortium–supports language-related education, research and technology development by creating and sharing linguistic resources.
TerraFly–View images and data anywhere in the United States and in much of the World.
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope–A large aperture, wide field survey telescope and 3200 Megapixel camera to image faint astronomical objects across the sky.
Open Topography–provides integrated access to high-resolution topographic data and web-based processing tools as well as enables its user community to share knowledge, resources and build science collaborations.
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