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HP, Intel and Yahoo Work Together on the Cloud
By Michelle Savage

August 1, 2008 — Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo have announced the Cloud Computing Test Bed, a joint cloud computing effort that will allow users to build and launch new applications on a hosted platform.

The goal of the Cloud Computing Test Bed is to encourage “research on the software, data center management and hardware issues associated with cloud computing at a larger scale than ever before," said HP. The three companies have enlisted Infocomm Development Authority (IRA) of Singapore, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as partners in this initiative.

The test bed consists of six data centers with HP servers powered by Intel processors, which will house between 1,000 and 4,000 processor cores each. Yahoo will provide the open-source software to run on the test bed. The centers will be located in facilities hosted by HP, Intel, IRA of Singapore, the Steinbuch Centre for Computing, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Yahoo.

The companies and the university will start using the network immediately and give researchers access to it later this year. Other test centers will be built in the near future, said HP.

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