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NASA’s four Strategic Enterprises have bold goals that for achievement require orders-of-magnitude forward leaps in technology. Information systems technology is the key to enabling such breakthroughs, and so NASA is revolutionizing its approach to information technology with its Information Power Grid Project. “Information Power Grid” is NASA’s term for its effort to seamlessly link all NASA resources —computers, data, instruments, and people—into an interdisciplinary problem-solving and decision-making environment. Information Power Grid is one of several computational grid efforts arising—from: (1) the needs of organizations to make better use of their computational tools, and (2)the recognition that individual groups are using advances in software technology to develop sophisticated problem solving systems that are independent of each other. By recognizing the similarity in the underlying approaches to meeting these needs, a system (Information Power Grid) can be developed that provides an improved environment for resource management, while at the same time providing a uniform architecture for software development from systems software (including security, resource management, etc.) to the domain applications. Plug-and-play capability will be available throughout the system, and users’ problem solving abilities can focus on technologies other than information systems. Information Power Grid is now in the planning stage, and an overview of the effort is presented here. |
