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Continuous advances in electronics technology have finally brought us into the age of “Exascale” computing. One of the next big challenges is the management of the deluge of data that is now being generated in scientific research, observation and simulation. Whether it is the ever expanding study or our Earth’s rapidly changing climate and biology or probing the fundamental structure of matter itself, data are being collected and generated at unprecedented rates.
The US Department of Energy (Office of Science) has begun implementation of a new initiative to integrate the vast research and computational resources under the DOE umbrella to help tackle this data wave and to enhance and accelerate discovery and innovation in order to advance a new open science ecosystem.
Jefferson Lab, in Newport News, Virginia, is a US Department of Energy (DOE) funded national laboratory focused on the study of the basic building blocks of matter (quarks and gluons) and the forces that bind them. JLab is playing a significant role in the new DOE Integrated research Initiative (IRI). Details of this initiative as well as several of the programs under development there will be presented.
David Abbott is a staff scientist at JLab. He has spent the majority of his career in the development of data acquisition systems for nuclear physics research.
