NSF Teams with Microsoft to Move Scientific Research into the Cloud

Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 20:14 in Mathematics & Economics

Microsoft and the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Thursday announced plans to offer researchers and research groups selected through the agency's merit review process free access to computer servers . Microsoft will host the computing infrastructure at its data centers, giving the researchers access to storage, computational and networking resources via the Internet for a period of three years. [More]

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