Abstract
Cyber Infrastructure as a Service to Empower Multidisciplinary, Data-Driven Scientific Research
Highlights
Funded by the U.S National Science Foundation(NSF) since 2013, the Nevada Solar Nexus project[1]marks a long term, large scale, state-wide effort to study the impacts of solar energy generation on limited water resouces and fragile desert environment in the state of Nevada
These valuable data are all delivered and deposited directly to the Nevada Research Data Center (NRDC), a data repository physically located at a university campus in northern Nevada
Except the data storage and management services offered by the NRDC, the southern Nevada is tasked to provide all the remaining cyber infrastructure services, including data integration, data mining, data analysis/processing, and data visualization as well as other needed computing and information processing services, through a private cloud, named as the Southern Nevada Research Cloud(SNRC)
Summary
Funded by the U.S National Science Foundation(NSF) since 2013, the Nevada Solar Nexus project[1]marks a long term, large scale, state-wide effort to study the impacts of solar energy generation on limited water resouces and fragile desert environment in the state of Nevada. One of the key elements of the Nexus project, truly multidisciplinary by nature, is to build and leverage its Cyber infrastructure(CI) to support a large array of Nexus researchers (college professors, post docs, graduate students, undergraduate students, and community participants) for their research endeavors. All the sensors and the CI services provided by NRDC and SNRC are seamlessly linked together by high-speed networks If fully realized, this Nexus CI will drive the entire research community to take advantage of all its capabilities to pursue their data-intensive, multidisciplinary research ambitions. Through a web-based service endpoint, integration of SNRC and NRDC allow send users to effortlessly access and process remote large datasets through high-speed networks and advanced data processing and storage capabilities.
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