Google and IBM are bringing cloud computing to a University near you. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about a professor who is planning to use EC2 in the classroom, but it looks like it will no longer be a lone professor teaching his students something useful.
Six universities will be involved in the initiative. They are Carnegie Mellon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Maryland and the University of Washington.
Google is building a data center, at an undisclosed location, that will contain more than 1,600 processors by the end of the year. I.B.M. is also setting up a data center for the initiative.
The centers will run an open-source version of Google's data center software, and I.B.M. is contributing open-source tools to help students write Internet programs and data center management software.
I sure wish we had this when I was in school instead of learning how to make a single threaded Windows clone (circa 1979) in some obscure programming language on a 10 year old piece'o'**** Sparc.
More at NY Times.
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