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Description
The term "cyberinfrastructure" now describes the varied computational resources and services, both
interconnected and distributed, supporting scientific and engineering research. Great progress has been made
in developing the necessary cyberinfrastructure for large-scale science and engineering projects. However, a
larger research community with smaller, individual projects does not currently enjoy convenient access to the
cyberinfrastructure. We now stand at a point in time at which cyberinfrastructure has matured sufficiently to
allow economical integration and deployment to a larger, more diverse research community. In this proposal
we describe a plan to do exactly that for the computational chemistry community - a very large community
dominated by individual investigators and small groups - that has been making use of significant amounts of
NSF funded resources for many years representing one of the largest components in the job mix of all
supercomputer centers. This is because of the importance of computational chemistry to the fundamentals of
materials science and biology as well as chemistry. Any branch of research which depends on the
understanding of molecular structure and function is going to benefit from having access to adequate
computational resources. The computational chemistry community, ranging from theorists to experimentalists,
has a growing need for computational resources. The opportunity exists to enhance the cyberinfrastructure
with an easy-to-use interface that lowers the barrier to use far beyond anything imagined to date and provides
that interface to the entire community. This project leverages the many efforts supported by the NSF and other
agencies that built the cyberinfrastructure to now allow us to deliver service to a research community via a
desktop environment coupled to grid computing.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 10/1/04 → 9/30/09 |
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