title: Perspectives of MediGRID.
abstract: Sustainability is a top priority for nearly all grid communities. The German grid communities in the area of life sciences are continuing their dissemination efforts in order to bring the grid to scientists. With cloud computing another concept for distributed IT infrastructures is on the rise. In this regard the grid has a different focus and matches better with life science compute power demands. A comparison of both grid and cloud in addition to the background and present status of the German life science grid give a contemporary impression of the future perspectives of MediGRID.
authors: Department of Medical Informatics, University of Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Strasse 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany. fdickmann@med.uni-goettingen.de
authors: Frank
authors: F
authors: Dickmann
authors: Mathias
authors: M
authors: Kaspar
authors: Benjamin
authors: B
authors: Löhnhardt
authors: Tobias A
authors: TA
authors: Knoch
authors: Ulrich
authors: U
authors: Sax
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D005858:Germany; D033181:Information Dissemination