1. Carnegie Mellon University data center to host Open Cirrus HPC cluster

    DatacenterDynamics (Feb 23 2010) Cloud Computing

    1. Carnegie Mellon University data center to host Open Cirrus HPC cluster The research data center at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science will host one of the series of computing clusters around the world that comprise Open Cirrus, a test bed for cloud computing research created by HP, Intel and Yahoo! This is the second Open Cirrus cluster the university’s scientists will have had access to. The Carnegie Mellon site, hosted within the university’s Data Center Observatory, will focus on researching ways to make cloud computing infrastructure faster, increase its reliability and energy efficiency, as well as deploying new applications on cloud infrastructure. With the addition of Carnegie Mellon, Open Cirrus infrastructure is now deployed at 10 sites, including government and academic institutions in the US, Europe and Asia. This and other Open Cirrus sites will become available to researchers later this year. “Having a facility like this and being able to participate in Open Cirrus will ... (Read Full Article)

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