In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World reports on two examples how the growth of scientific data sets is driving computing into the cloud, and asks how profoundly ...

With cloud computing the emphasis is on storage and networking to enable wide-scale, 24-by-seven access to data needed for transactions—scientific, financial or otherwise.

In the first, we find out how cloud computing is allowing scientists to collaborate on research projects by providing easy access to shared resources. The second article explores the potential of ...