IBM, universities team up on cloud project
Published: 27 Jan 2009 16:34 GMT
IBM on Monday announced that it has partnered with three universities to develop one of the first cloud-computing platforms in the Middle East.
IBM, along with Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar University and Texas A&M University in Qatar, plans to use the Qatar Cloud Computing Center to handle advanced research for search, data mining, scientific modelling and simulation, computational biology and financial modelling.
"This will help us realise our vision of developing, evaluating and extending a cloud-computing infrastructure in Qatar, to target regional applications and projects to help advance research," Majd F Sakr, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, said in a statement.
Five pilot application projects will include oil and gas seismic modelling and exploration; Arabic language web-search engines; and a cloud-computing curriculum to teach at the universities.
IBM and universities will collaborate on building the infrastructure for the cloud-computing platform, followed by developing applications to build on the Hadoop open-source programming model.
Credit: IBM teams up with universities on cloud project from CNET News
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