Marcia sent this around, to think about research. I wonder if we might think about the computing angle? Can we use 1600 linked processors for anything?
NSF Partners With Google and IBM to Enhance Academic Research Opportunities
National Science Foundation (02/25/08) Cruikshank, Dana W.
The National Science Foundation's computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has announced the Cluster Exploratory (CluE), a strategic partnership with Google and IBM that will enable the academic research community to conduct experiments and test new theories and ideas using a large-scale, massively distributed computing cluster. "Access to the Google-IBM academic cluster via the CluE program will provide the academic community with the opportunity to do research in data-intensive computing and to explore powerful new applications," says NSF CISE assistant director Jeannette Wing. "It can also serve as a tool for educating the next generation of scientists and engineers." Google vice president of engineering (and ACM President) Stuart Feldman says the company hopes the computing cluster "will allow researchers across many fields to take advantage of large-scale, distributed computing." IBM's Willy Chiu says the combined effort should accelerate research on Internet-scale computing and drive innovation to support applications of the future. Last October, IBM and Google created a large-scale computer cluster of approximately 1,600 processors to provide the academic community with access to otherwise unobtainable resources.
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Can we capitalize on this?
I think we should be thinking about what can be done with the potential mass/deluge of data we could gather with SAIL runs.
m NSF Partners With Google and IBM to Enhance Academic Research Opportunities
National Science Foundation (02/25/08) Cruikshank, Dana W. The National Science Foundation's computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has announced the Cluster Exploratory (CluE), a strategic partnership with Google and IBM that will enable the academic research community to conduct experiments and test new theories and ideas using a large-scale, massively distributed computing cluster. "Access to the Google-IBM academic cluster via the CluE program will provide the academic community with the opportunity to do research in data-intensive computing and to explore powerful new applications," says NSF CISE assistant director Jeannette Wing. "It can also serve as a tool for educating the next generation of scientists and engineers." Google vice president of engineering (and ACM President) Stuart Feldman says the company hopes the computing cluster "will allow researchers across many fields to take advantage of large-scale, distributed computing." IBM's Willy Chiu says the combined effort should accelerate research on Internet-scale computing and drive innovation to support applications of the future. Last October, IBM and Google created a large-scale computer cluster of approximately 1,600 processors to provide the academic community with access to otherwise unobtainable resources.
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Christine L. Borgman, Professor & Presidential Chair Dept of Information Studies, UCLA
Professor Marcia C. Linn 4611 Tolman Hall Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
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