Intel, HP, Yahoo and Illinois announced Cloud Computing Initiative : TECH.COM
In collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo!, Illinois will develop an experimental testbed for data-intensive applications using distributed “cloud” computational resources. The global partnership, which also includes the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, will result in the establishment of a globally distributed, Internet-scale testing environment for advanced research in cloud computing infrastructure and services.
“We live in a world populated with enormous amounts of data from a wide variety of sources such as satellite telemetry, medical and agricultural sensors, and billions of web pages,” said computer science professor Michael Heath, interim head of department, and one of the three Illinois researchers leading the project. “There is a compelling human need to represent, analyze, query, manage, understand, and respond to such data for knowledge extraction and decision making.”
Responding to these needs, the Cloud Computing Testbed (CCT) at Illinois will enable researchers to explore systems-level research issues such as automatic resource allocation, scheduling, monitoring, and management tasks that arise in processing and responding to large amounts of data. The proposed research will cover a breadth of research areas including networking, operating systems, virtual machines, distributed systems, data-mining, Web search, network measurement, and multimedia.
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This post was written by techhair on August 19, 2008