IBM/Google Cloud Computing University Initiative
IBM was a 2009 project using the resources developed in 2007's IBM/Google Cloud Computing partnership. This initiative was to provide access to cloud computing for the universities of all countries.[1]
This initiative was funded by the National Science Foundation awarding $5 million in grants to 14 universities, including Kyushu University, University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] The goal of this initiative was to enhance university curricula in parallel programming techniques and to promote cloud computing research and development.[2]
With funding help from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the cloud computing initiative provided assistance to hundreds of university scientists working on research projects.[3]
By 2011, Google and IBM were completing the program since high-performance cloud computing clusters had become widely available to researchers at reasonable costs.[4]
References
- ^ a b "National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research". IBM. April 23, 2009. Archived from the original on May 4, 2009.
- ^ Naghshineh, M.; Ratnaparkhi, R.; Dillenberger, D.; Doran, J. R.; Dorai, C.; Anderson, L.; Pacifici, G.; Snowdon, J. L.; Azagury, A.; VanderWiele, M.; Wolfsthal, Y. (July 2009). "IBM Research Division cloud computing initiative". IBM Journal of Research and Development. 53 (4): 1:1–1:10. doi:10.1147/JRD.2009.5429055. ISSN 0018-8646 – via IEEE Xplore.
- ^ Gonzalez, Amado (January 11, 2012). "The Payoff from the IBM-Google University Research Cloud". FIU.
- ^ "The Payoff from the IBM-Google University Research Cloud". IBM. December 22, 2011.
Further reading
- Chen, Jiajia; Qian, Fuliang; Yan, Wenying; Shen, Bairong (March 17, 2013). "Translational Biomedical Informatics in the Cloud: Present and Future". Biomed Res Int. 2013: 658925. doi:10.1155/2013/658925. PMC 3613081. PMID 23586054.
Note: this cloud research references the initiative