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The emergence of computer-enabling technologies in the late 20th century has transformed the way science is practiced in the U.S and around the world. Science researchers and educators now take advantage of electronic literature databases and virtual classrooms, and have benefited from a sustained growth in all areas of low- mid-, and high-performance computing hardware. So profound has been the change that the use of information, computational and communication technologies is now an accepted part of the research infrastructure we expect to maintain and grow in the 21st century. No field has been impacted more than the chemical sciences. For this reason, the National Science Foundation sponsored a two-day workshop in early October that focused on all aspects of Cyber-Enabled Chemistry. This workshop, attended by a scientifically diverse group of approximately 40 participants from academia, government laboratories, and the private sector, along with observers from various agencies and international representatives, was organized around four chemical sciences drivers, - Core Computational Chemistries - Computational Chemistry at the Interface - Grand Challenge Chemistries - Computational and Experimental Chemistry Interaction
A primary purpose was then to determine how cyberinfrastructure solutions can enable chemical science research and education, as represented by these science drivers, and how best to educate and train our future workforce to use and benefit from cyberinfrastructure advances, with particular focus on - Hardware Infrastructure - Software and Algorithms - Databases and ChemInformatics - Education and Training - Remote Chemistries
Having identified common cyberinfrastructure solutions for the chemistry community as a whole, and discerned distinct needs of the chemical sciences drivers, we offer the following recommendations at http://workshop report.
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