Since 9-11, the U.S. has been more vulnerable to diffuse threats. In response to the growing threat of terrorism's attack on CI/KR and all kinds of natural and/or manmade disasters, the U.S. government must adopt more effective risk management to remediate risks and mitigate the consequence of… More

The infrastructure and programming paradigm for petabyte-level data processing performed at companies like Google and Yahoo shed some promising lights on the data-intensive scientific computing. Open source software and inexpensive commodity hardware make proprietary technologies within the grasp of… More

Building more in-house datacenters to backup explosively growing scientific datasets is neither cost-effective nor in line with government green initiative. Cloud computing is emerging as a viable platform for data storage, collaboration and disaster recovery. We are going to develop a suite of… More

Cloud computing holds promise to deliver computing as a utility to scientists and large user communities. While vast computational resources could be made available instantly on cloud computing platforms, system installation and application configuration on top of these resources is still a time-… More