Collaboration
WUNgrid is fundamentally about sharing-sharing computer resources,
sharing data and information resources, and sharing communications
and experiential technologies.
|
Innovation
WUNgrid is an infrastructure which enables new research that has not
been possible before-and thus it gives a competitive advantage over
those conducting research without such facilities in place.
|
Interaction
The WUNgrid vision is to build ubiquitous, comprehensive digital
environments that become interactive and functionally complete for
research communities in terms of people, data, information, tools,
and instruments, and that operate at unprecedented levels
of computational, storage, and data transfer capacity.
|
Integration
WUNgrid involves the integration of appropriate infrastructure services
from various providers and uses this platform to deliver applications to
a community of users. It is a branded, organizational entity that sits on
top of existing facilities, rather than a bespoke hardware investment.
|
Application
WUNgrid is driven by the needs of the community it supports. The social
sciences, arts, and humanities are upcoming areas for exploiting Grid
computing, in which WUN will innovate and become distinctive.
|
Impact
WUNgrid will have a significant amplifying effect, providing
revenue-gearing and growing the capabilities of WUN in high impact
research, research training and educational programmes.
|
