Google Cloud At Work For NSF, Academia


	Google Cloud At Work For NSF, Academia

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					</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.socialmedian.com/story/420211/google-cloud-at-work-for-nsf-academia?email_alert=1&uid=1534&click_from=recent-news-network"><P>Christophe Bisciglia, Senior Software Engineer at Google, talks to NewTeeVee’s Chris Albrecht at <A href="http://events.gigaom.com/structure/08/">our Structure 08 conference</A> and discusses how Google is bring <A href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20071008_ibm_univ.html">cloud computing to academia</A> including the National Science Foundation.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.socialmedian.com/story/420211/google-cloud-at-work-for-nsf-academia?email_alert=1&uid=1534&click_from=recent-news-network"><P>Google gives academics and students at some of the largest universities around the planet access to massive resources for academic quest and experiments, Bisciglia says in this chat. In February 2008, Google <A href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111186">announced that</A> it was working with National Science Foundation and IBM on the Cluster Exploratory (CluE) that would enable, “academic research community to conduct experiments and test new theories and ideas using a large-scale, massively distributed computing cluster.” Check out the video below the fold. <BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.socialmedian.com/story/420211/google-cloud-at-work-for-nsf-academia?email_alert=1&uid=1534&click_from=recent-news-network"><P>According to information available on Google’s corporate website, NSF has access to a 1,600 processor cluster, with terabytes of memory and many hundred terabytes of storage.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C0ED4843-21B6-43BB-A6C4-295F10F0E35A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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