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In our work with many hundreds of researchers who work in smaller labs, we’ve learned a few things about what is likely to be adopted and what is likely to go nowhere. For these scientists, who represent the majority of researchers working today, cyberinfrastructure can’t be delivered by providing software to be installed in a lab: they too often lack the local infrastructure and expertise.

Picture this: You just got access to an awesome dataset, and you can't wait to start tinkering with it. Maybe it's stored in some remote observatory, or maybe it's right there in your laptop. Wherever it is, Globus Online can help you move it somewhere with serious computational muscle, so you can start hacking away at those oodles of data.

Except... you don't actually have an account on one of those fancy clusters or supercomputers.

For the September User of the Month, I’m happy to announce that we have selected Sarah Kenny from the University of California, Irvine.

In “Anatomy of the Grid," published in 2001, Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, and Steve Tuecke posited that the central problem in Grid computing is “coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations.” 10 years later, the virtual organization problem is still a very much at the heart of multi-institutional scientific collaboration.