Dive Brief:
- Indiana University will build the National Science Foundation’s first cloud-based computational and data storage services for science and engineering research.
- The university’s Pervasive Technology Institute won a $6.6 million grant from the foundation to build and operate the services, dubbed Jetstream.
- Over five years, the university is expected to receive about $11 million in grants from the foundation for Jetstream.
Dive Insight:
The idea behind Jetstream is to provide researchers and students with on-demand access to supercomputing tools and data storage resources, and to allow creators of new research software to distribute it easily for adoption by new users. Collaborating on the Jetstream project are the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Chicago, University of Arizona, University of Texas at San Antonio, Johns Hopkins University, Pennsylvania State University, Cornell University, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, University of Hawaii, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of North Carolina, and the National Center for Genome Analysis Support.