[Air-l] e-science, the grid, and supercomputers

[Ben Anderson]

To add to this (and to provide context to Steve Woolgar's request) here is
how the UK's Social Science Research Council construes the relationship
between of 'e' and 'social science'.

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/researchfunding/escience.asp

And more specifically:

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/researchfunding/esciencespec.asp

There was a useful discussion led by Steve at the OII/iCS conference already
mentioned over whether this stuff is a paradigm shift or just more of the
same but faster/bigger/whatever.

B
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Dr Ben Anderson
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> From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu>
> Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:19:42 -0400
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] e-science, the grid, and supercomputers
> 
> Over on Tribe.net, the head of this area at IBM gave me these urls in
> response to my enquiry about the grid
> http://www.ibm.com/grid
> http:// www.gridforum.org
> http:// www.gridcomputingplanet.com
> and
> http:// http://www.teragrid.org/about/index.html