E-Science

particle collider

Illinois-based applied supercomputing research organization

LHC@home is a volunteer computing project researching particle physics that uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. The project's computing power is utilized by physicists at CERN in support of the Large Hadron Collider and other experimental particle accelerators.

right|thumb|Antennas for High-speed Amateur-radio Multimedia Network (HamNET) in Europe, part of the wireless mesh network

grid computing project

E-Science, also known as eScience, is the practice of conducting computationally intensive scientific research in highly distributed network environments. This form of science involves the use of substantial data sets that necessitate grid computing, a method of leveraging multiple computers to process large data sets efficiently. In some cases, the term encompasses technologies that facilitate distributed collaboration, such as the access grid. The term was coined by John Taylor, the Director General of the United Kingdom's Office of Science and Technology, in 1999 and was used to describe a

British physicist and computer scientist

United States federal government agencies use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services distributed over the Internet beyond the scope of a single institution. In scientific usage, cyberinfrastructure is a technological and sociological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting federal laboratories, large scales of data, processing power, and scientists with the goal of enabling novel scient

Supercomputer at UC San Diego.