July/August 2009Guest Editor’s Introduction:Cloud Computing for the SciencesFrancis SullivanHow is cloud computing important to science and engineering? This simple-looking question turns out to be very hard to answer. Entities from Amazon to Google to Wikipedia can't seem to agree even on how to define the term, let alone describe its overall importance to various engineering fields. The July/August issue of CiSE focuses on cloud computing's role in scientific computing; the guest editor, Francis Sullivan, describes the three articles he's selected to fulfill this goal, along with a general discourse of the "state of the cloud." Read More>> | |  | Mission Statement:The mission of Computing in Science & Engineering is to support the development of computing tools and methods as well as their effective use in both computational and experimental science and engineering. |
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