| By Maureen O'Gara |
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| June 4, 2008 05:15 PM EDT |
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Yahoo has tied up with Tata subsidiary Computational
Research Laboratories (CRL) to do cloud computing research. Financial terms
were not disclosed.
What CRL brings to the party is the fourth-fastest
supercomputer in the world, a beast that Yahoo figures has “substantially more
processors than any other supercomputer currently available for cloud research”
– 14,400 of them to be precise along with 28TB of memory, 140TB of disk space,
a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations a second and sustained
computation capacity of 120 teraflops.
Yahoo is kicking in its expertise with Apache Hadoop, the
open source distributed computing project.
The machine, which is called the EKA, the only supercomputer
funded by the private sector and available for use on commercial terms, is
supposed to run the latest version of Hadoop and other Yahoo-supported open
source distributed computing software like the Pig parallel programming
language that Yahoo Research developed.
Yahoo says the effort will be the first of its kind in terms
of the size and scale of machine and the first to make a supercomputer
available to academic institutions in India.
Meanwhile, IBM has teamed up with Georgia Tech and Ohio State
University to develop
autonomic technology for cloud computing expecting self-managing features for
virtualized data centers in a cloud computing environment out of it.
The project will create a prototype computing cloud that
links data centers at the two schools called the Critical Enterprise Cloud
Computing Services facility and will push Tivoli
as a management tool and SOA to link different software silos running at both
sites.
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