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At NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) we are now developing a new research environment named “Science cloud”. The Science Cloud is a cloud-computing environment, which connects many researchers with high-speed network (JGN-X). It also provides the researchers with rich computational resources for research studies, such as super-computer, large-scale storage (disk) area, data processing parallel cluster workstations with GPGPUs, licensed applications, DB (database) and meta-DB, and communication devices. What is amazing is that a user simply prepares a terminal (low-cost PC) to make use of the resources. After connecting the PC to JGN-X, the user can make full use of the rich resources via L2 network. Using communication devices, such as video-conference system, streaming and reflector servers, and media-players, the users on the Science Cloud can make research communications as if they belong to a same (one) laboratory: they are members of a virtual laboratory.. |