Reaching for the cloud

On the lessons learned from grid computing technology transfer process to the biomedical community

authored by

Yassene Mohammed, Frank Dickmann, Ulrich Sax, Gabriele Von Voigt, Matthew Smith, Otto Rienhoff

Abstract

Natural scientists such as physicists pioneered the sharing of computing resources, which led to the creation of the Grid. The inter domain transfer process of this technology has hitherto been an intuitive process without in depth analysis. Some difficulties facing the life science community in this transfer can be understood using the Bozeman's "Effectiveness Model of Technology Transfer". Bozeman's and classical technology transfer approaches deal with technologies which have achieved certain stability. Grid and Cloud solutions are technologies, which are still in flux. We show how Grid computing creates new difficulties in the transfer process that are not considered in Bozeman's model. We show why the success of healthgrids should be measured by the qualified scientific human capital and the opportunities created, and not primarily by the market impact. We conclude with recommendations that can help improve the adoption of Grid and Cloud solutions into the biomedical community. These results give a more concise explanation of the difficulties many life science IT projects are facing in the late funding periods, and show leveraging steps that can help overcoming the "vale of tears".

Organisation(s)

L3S Research Centre
Institute of Data Science

External Organisation(s)

University of Göttingen

Type

Conference contribution

Pages

1339-1343

No. of pages

5

Publication date

2010

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomedical Engineering, Health Informatics, Health Information Management

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-1339 (Access: Closed)