E-science effort will try to tame data torrents

A growing number of scientific fields suffer from a stifling embarassment of riches: data pile up much faster than they can be analyzed. A team of researchers at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute is now building a prototype of a system that will address the problem by automating scientific workflows.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news94999881.html">E-science effort will try to tame data torrents</a></p> <p>A growing number of scientific fields suffer from a stifling embarassment of riches: data pile up much faster than they can be analyzed. A team of researchers at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute is now building a prototype of a system that will address the problem by automating scientific workflows.</p>