What is Cyber-Infrastructure?
By Cyberinf | August 24, 2007
Cyber-infrastructure refers to the integration, coordination, and deployment of information technology and human resources to support modern science and engineering problems. Hardware resources of Cyber-infrastructure include computers, data storage, networks, visualization facilities, and scientific instruments (telescopes, satellites, sensors, etc.). Software provides the “glue” which integrates the hardware resources of Cyber-infrastructure, enabling them to be used together by applications in an “end-to-end” fashion. Human expertise is a critical part of Cyber-infrastructure and fundamental for designing, building, evolving and complementing the integrated hardware and software environment. In short, Cyber-infrastructure provides the technology “fabric” and infrastructure foundation for modern science.
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