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Economics, research. The computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard (HP), the producer of Intel microprocessors and the Internet group Yahoo, have forged a partnership to develop the computer market virtual or “cloud computing.” The three entities will create multiple data centers, high performance and open source, Singapore, Germany and the USA, in order to refine their knowledge in computing and virtual calculations distributed. The virtual computer based on the dematerialization, via the web, software and applications traditionally attached to a computer. The capacity calculations can be dispersed between several devices and several places, like what is done for scientific calculations (calculations distributed). The Folding @ home project at Sony, for example, had allowed,
Logo Yahoo! Bang through more than one million PlayStation 3 consoles, to provide end of 2007 nearly three quarters of computing power petaflopique (million billion operations per second), provided by Stanford University for his project simulation degenerative diseases. Combined with services, information technology virtualized can be compared to outsourcing. Intel
Through this partnership, the three groups, associated with institutional partners (the Noncom Development Authority of Singapore, University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany), will therefore create six data centers, mainly with equipment designed HP and Intel processors (between 1000 and 4000 hearts). They are “for the development of research and education of virtual computers,” said a joint statement. The aim is to “promote an open collaboration between industry, universities and government, removing the financial and logistical barriers to research on a computer across the Internet, is it added.
In line with the vision of “everything as a Service” HP, this project will allow
HP term to businesses and individuals to use services that anticipate their needs on a geographical basis, preferences, calendar and communities. The infrastructure should be initiated before the end of the year for selected researchers throughout the world. An operation may seem relatively late.
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Indeed, the first to have really exploited the potential of virtual computer was first with its Amazon Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The giant Google has itself already started alongside IBM Grid Computing in the USA but also in Asia. The firm Mountain view even offers an application that allows to run applications directly on its infrastructure, without any maintenance of servers is necessary: the Google App Engine. Until a storage capacity of 500MB and a bandwidth not exceeding five million page views, this service is even free. The question remains what to supply details of the trio of competitors HP, Yahoo and Intel.