The document discusses the significance of cloud computing for scientific processes, emphasizing the time-consuming nature of various tasks like data management and analysis. It outlines the potential of Software as a Service (SaaS) and other cloud services to streamline these processes in both science and business. Additionally, it introduces Globus Online, a tool for efficient file transfer and data management in grid computing environments.

1. What the cloud reallymeans for scienceIan FosterComputation InstituteUniversity of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory

2. Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what’s true from what feels good — Carl Sagan

3. J.C.R. Licklider on thinking (1960) About 85%of my “thinking” time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know

4. “At one point, it was necessary to compare six experimental determinations of a function relating speech-intelligibilityto speech-to-noise ratio. No two experimenters had used the same definition or measure of speech-to-noise ratio. Several hours of calculating were required to get the data into comparable form. When they were in comparable form, it took only a few seconds to determine what I needed to know.”

6. 42%!!

7. Time-consuming tasks in scienceRun experimentsCollect dataManage dataMove dataAcquire computersAnalyze dataRun simulationsCompare experiment with simulationSearch the literatureCommunicate with colleagues

8. Publish papers

9. Find, configure, install relevant software

10. Find, access, analyze relevant data

11. Order supplies

12. Write proposals

13. Write reports

14. …Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

15. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

16. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

17. Time-consuming tasks in business Web presenceEmail (hosted Exchange)Calendar Telephony (hosted VOIP) Human resources and payroll Accounting Customer relationship mgmt Data analytics Content distribution …SaaS

18. Time-consuming tasks in business Web presenceEmail (hosted Exchange)Calendar Telephony (hosted VOIP) Human resources and payroll Accounting Customer relationship mgmtData analytics Content distribution …SaaSIaaS

19. Time-consuming tasks in scienceRun experimentsCollect dataManage dataMove dataAcquire computersAnalyze dataRun simulationsCompare experiment with simulationSearch the literatureCommunicate with colleagues

20. Publish papers

21. Find, configure, install relevant software

22. Find, access, analyze relevant data

23. Order supplies

24. Write proposals

25. Write reports

26. …Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

27. Time-consuming tasks in scienceRun experimentsCollect dataManage dataMove dataAcquire computersAnalyze dataRun simulationsCompare experiment with simulationSearch the literatureCommunicate with colleagues

28. Publish papers

29. Find, configure, install relevant software

30. Find, access, analyze relevant data

31. Order supplies

32. Write proposals

33. Write reports

34. …Time-consuming tasks in scienceRun experimentsCollect dataManage dataMove dataAcquire computersAnalyze dataRun simulationsCompare experiment with simulationSearch the literatureCommunicate with colleagues

35. Publish papers

36. Find, configure, install relevant software

37. Find, access, analyze relevant data

38. Order supplies