The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
The science, technology, engineering and mathematics Nexus Foundry rests on. Each method has a canonical page in the STEM Commons, hosted by GCRI, and a page here on how it is applied in this field.
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The Nexus Foundry STEM foundation is the set of canonical methods its findings depend on, from high-performance, cloud and edge computing to software and safety-critical systems engineering. Each method has a canonical STEM Commons page and a page here on its use in the data and compute field.
Fig.The methods this platform draws on and what each one feeds. Design, not a record.
Urban demand centres and the hubs that anchor digital and data infrastructure, shown for East Asia as an example geography for this subject.
Foundry work rests on computing and data engineering for the platform, geospatial methods for maps, AI and machine learning for models and agents, systems engineering for integration, and safety-critical software practice for assurance.
When a finding names the methods it depends on, a reader can see its assumptions and limits, and an expert in that method can challenge it.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| STEM Commons | The shared reference of science, technology, engineering and mathematics methods for the Nexus network, hosted by GCRI, with one canonical page per method and a named steward platform. |
| Steward platform | The platform that maintains the canonical description of a method in the STEM Commons and reviews how other platforms apply it. |
| High-performance, cloud and edge computing | High-performance, cloud and edge computing provide the processing and storage capacity for simulation, analytics and digital services. |
| Data engineering, interoperability and stewardship | Data engineering, interoperability and stewardship cover the pipelines, standards and governance that make data usable and trustworthy. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.