Wednesday 08 September 2010
The program works with IBM and Google on their Cloud Computing University initiative, and is designed to look at the infrastructure requirements to make leading-edge cloud computing system which many believe will power the next generation of the World Wide Web. The scope of this project is enormous. Just reading the synopsis of what will be studied is impressive enough, let alone the actual research behind it. And the cloud computing nature of the project relates to the extremely large data sets that are being generated today. These include total website data and materials which can be mined for usable information, such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, along with shopping trends seen on major online retailers.
The universities receiving money include: Carnegie-Mellon, Florida International, MIT, University of Wisconsin, Yale, Purdue, UC-Irvine, UC-San Diego and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC-Santa Barbara, University of Maryland-College Park, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Utah. Corporations include IBM and Google on their “Cloud Computing University Initiative”, which serves as a type of spear-head group for the project’s goals and focuses results on industry-oriented needs. The National Science Foundation has published a flash video which, in a news-style interview format with University of Maryland’s Mihai Pop, assistant professor of computer science, explains the process.
