What is CyberInfrastructure (CI)?
The term "cyberinfrastructure" was coined by a National Science Foundation (NSF) blue-ribbon committee in 2003 in answer to the question: how can NSF, as the nation's premier agency funding basic research, remove existing barriers to the rapid evolution of high performance computing, making it truly usable by all the nation's scientists and engineers? The term describes the new research environments in which advanced computational, collaborative, data acquisition, and management services are available to researchers through high-performance networks. The definition is evolving as the cyberinfrastructure itself evolves. The quotations, presentations, and articles in the references section will help provide a foundation for understanding the scope of CyberInfrastructure.
