Cyberenvironments

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Cyberenvironments are technologies that provide an easy-to-use interface to local and shared instruments, sensor arrays, data stores and data sets, computational systems, networks, scientific and engineering applications, data analysis and visualization tools and services, and collaboration capabilities, all within a secure framework.

Cyberenvironments help researchers organize and coordinate the appropriate subset of global resources available on a given problem and add capabilities that enhance said researchers’ abilities to manage complex projects and automate processes within and across projects and disciplines as well as to collaborate effectively with colleagues near and far. Cyber­environments are tailored to allow researchers and educators to interact with the cyber­infrastructure using concepts and approaches familiar to their specific discipline. They act as a disciplinary lens over the cyberinfrastructure to focus resources and capabilities on the solution of a specific problem. Cyberenvironments are built on technologies such as portals, workflow engines, and semantic data and service descriptions to enable continuing addition of new cyberapplications, cybertools, and cyberservices as researchers’ needs evolve and scientific understanding grows.

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• Cyberenvironments: Powering science at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)