Yahoo!, Universities Focus on Cloud
Yahoo!’s partnership with top U.S. universities aims to advance cloud
computing research. These universities will use Yahoo!’s cloud computing
platform to conduct advanced research toward Internet-scale information,
ranging from voting records to online news sources.
In this
initiative, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University,
and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon
University.
To
date, says Yahoo!, academic researchers have had limited access to
Internet-scale supercomputers for conducting systems and applications
research. To help alleviate this obstacle, Yahoo! is granting these four
universities access to the Yahoo! cloud computing cluster.
The
Yahoo! cluster, also known as M45, has been operational since November
2007 and in use by Carnegie Mellon. The cluster has approximately 4,000
processor-cores and 1.5 petabytes of disks.
Yahoo!’s M45 cluster runs Hadoop, an open-source distributed file system
and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process
massive amounts of data. Apache Hadoop is an open-source project of the
Apache Software Foundation, to which Yahoo! engineers have been
contributing.
In July
2008, Yahoo! joined forces with HP, Intel, the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) in Singapore,
and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany to create
Open Cirrus. It’s a global, multi-data center, open-source testbed for
advancing cloud computing research and education.
The
partnership with Illinois also includes the National Science Foundation
(NSF), creating a cloud computing cluster that is made available to the
entire reach of the NSF academic community.
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