NSF’s $20 Million Investment Will Fuel Cloud-Based Research

September 2, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from FedTechMagazine. Author: Nicole Blake Johnson.

The National Science Foundation wants to transform the way cloud services are designed and delivered to support a new wave of applications for medical devices, power grids, transportation systems and other critical areas. NSF is funding two $10 million projects aimed at empowering “academic researchers to experiment with novel cloud architectures and pursue new, architecturally enabled applications of cloud computing,” NSF CIO Amy Northcutt wrote in a recent blog post.

“While most of the original ideas that laid the foundation for cloud computing came from the academic research community, as clouds grew in popularity, industry has more recently driven their design and use,” Northcutt explained. That’s why the NSF-funded projects will complement industry efforts…

The two projects — dubbed Chameleon and CloudLab — will serve as testbeds for cloud experiments and development of new applications and will be available at no charge to researchers from institutions throughout the country. NSF expects thousands of scientists to use the new testbeds…

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