UO's Private Science Cloud
Eugene and clouds — they go together like Ducks and touchdowns. It is perhaps fitting, then, that computer and information science professor Allen Malony is leading a team that will install a UO cloud computing system in late spring 2012.
The project will be funded by a $1.97 million National Science Foundation grant awarded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Cloud computing — shared resources and software stored on central servers that users access via the Internet — is designed to improve users — productivity while providing all their computing needs. The UO cloud, called ACISS (Applied Computational Instrument for Scientific Synthesis), will enable scientists to access via a web browser the computational and storage resources needed for their work.
For more, see UO's Private Science Cloud at the College of Arts & Sciences web site.