caa a22 4500 445327332 CHVBK 20180317142725.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10723-011-9190-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10723-011-9190-3 Intercontinental Grids: An Infrastructure for Demand-Driven Innovation [Elektronische Daten] [Ashley Lloyd, Terence Sloan] This paper charts the evolution of an intercontinental Grid—INWA—from its first operation connecting Australia and Scotland; its subsequent extension to China; and its use to demonstrate the first large-scale research and education network for the Asia-Pacific region. The paper focuses on the gap between e-Science and e-Social Science arguing that the Grid topology is more compatible with the socio-legal demands of large-scale study of society than more dynamically distributed approaches, such as Cloud Computing. Foundational texts on Grid Computing and its appropriation by research programmes in the UK, USA and China have helped create a positive, symbolic value for Grid Computing. For INWA, this value helped when communicating the aims of the project to potential collaborators and so created the conditions for high-quality, socio-economic data to be placed in a collaborative, analytical environment. There is no equivalent symbolic value for Cloud Computing with potential consequences for its usefulness in establishing such collaborations in future. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Grid nationallicence e-Science nationallicence e-Social Science nationallicence Cloud computing nationallicence Lloyd Ashley Business School, The University of Edinburgh, 29 Buccleuch Place, EH8 9JS, Edinburgh, UK aut Sloan Terence EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, EH9 3JZ, Edinburgh, UK aut Journal of Grid Computing Springer Netherlands 9/2(2011-06-01), 185-200 1570-7873 9:2<185 2011 9 10723 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-011-9190-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-011-9190-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lloyd Ashley Business School, The University of Edinburgh, 29 Buccleuch Place, EH8 9JS, Edinburgh, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sloan Terence EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, EH9 3JZ, Edinburgh, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Grid Computing Springer Netherlands 9/2(2011-06-01), 185-200 1570-7873 9:2<185 2011 9 10723 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer