Access regulations for datasets can be a barrier or inhibitor to uptake of e-Infrastructure services.
Discusses the issue of availability of access grid nodes and the overheads involved in a arranging meetings.
Discusses the issue of awareness of e-Infrastructure services amongst researchers.
Discusses the issue of communication and knowledge transfer in the adoption of e-Infrastructure services.
Discusses the issue of delays in gaining access to services.
Discusses the role that the institutional context and culture play in shaping the uptake of e-Infrastructure services for research.
The following sections in this introduction will elaborate on these transformations in research and the role played by ICT, describing research collaborations, “big research” in a globalised world and participation in research.
Discusses the issue of justifying the costs of acquiring resources or of adopting services.
Discusses the issue of managing user-designer relations in e-Research.
Discusses the need to improve the effectiveness of parallel codes to increase adoption of e-Infrastructure services for research.
Discusses the relationship between e-Science and HPC communities and the impact that differences in culture have for the adoption of e-Infrastructure services for research.
The Research in a Connected World collection provides an overview of distributed computing technologies and their use in research.
Discusses the need for researchers to understand distributed systems principles in order for them to make effective use of e-Infrastructure services.
Discusses the need for IT service staff to understand distributed systems in order to facilitate the uptake of e-Infrastructure services by researchers.
