Big Players Team Up With Education in the Cloud
HP, Intel and Yahoo! are teaming up to create a new global, multi-user data center and open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education.
The centers will allow educators and researchers to write software that will run on distributed systems, the core of which will be Yahoo’s Hadoop software that manages the easy distribution of work amongst lots of computer nodes.
Ars Technica has this to say:
The centers, which are hosted by the three companies in conjunction with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Steinbuch Centre for Computing of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), will go online later this year, at which point researchers and students will have access to the infrastructure.
Very cool – I really see this as becoming a bigger and bigger part of higher ed services in the future. Not just for the computing side but across the academic disciplines as well.
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