[ogf-msc] [msc] fyi

Craig Lee craig at rush.aero.org
Tue Oct 9 12:31:13 CDT 2007 

Bob Marcus and I talked about this yesterday on the phone.
He knows Ed Lazowska at U. Wash and talked about
bringing by some Amazon people -- possibly at the reception.
As the article says, this is Google's and IBM's way of training
a workforce that they will be needing in the not-so-distant future.

--Craig

At 08:37 AM 10/9/2007, Linesch, Mark wrote:
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>Google and I.B.M. Join in 'Cloud Computing' Research
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>By 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/steve_lohr/index.html?inline=nyt-per>STEVE 
>LOHR
>Published: October 8, 2007
>Even the nation's elite universities do not provide the technical training 
>needed for the kind of powerful and highly complex computing 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Google 
>is famous for, say computer scientists. So Google and 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/international_business_machines/index.html?inline=nyt-org>I.B.M. 
>are announcing today a major research initiative to address that shortcoming.
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>The two companies are investing to build large data centers that students 
>can tap into over the Internet to program and research remotely, which is 
>called "cloud computing."
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>Both companies have a deep business interest in this new model in which 
>computing chores increasingly move off individual desktops and out of 
>corporate computer centers to be handled as services over the Internet.
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>Google, the Internet search giant, is the leader in this technology. But 
>companies like 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/yahoo_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Yahoo, 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/amazon_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Amazon, 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/ebay_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org>eBay 
>and 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/microsoft_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Microsoft 
>have built Internet consumer services like search, social networking, Web 
>e-mail and online commerce that use cloud computing. In the corporate 
>market, I.B.M. and others have built Internet services to predict market 
>trends, tailor pricing and optimize procurement and manufacturing.
>
>Behind these services are data centers that typically use thousands of 
>processors, store countless libraries of data and engage specialized 
>software to tackle what scientists call Internet-scale computing 
>challenges. This new kind of data-intensive supercomputing often involves 
>scouring the Web and other data sources in seconds or minutes for patterns 
>and insights.
>
>Most of the innovation in cloud computing has been led by corporations, 
>but industry executives and computer scientists say a shortage of skills 
>and talent could limit future growth.
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>"We in academia and the government labs have not kept up with the times," 
>said Randal E. Bryant, dean of the computer science school at 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/carnegie_mellon_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Carnegie 
>Mellon University. "Universities really need to get on board."
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>Six universities will be involved in the initiative. They are Carnegie 
>Mellon, 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/m/massachusetts_institute_of_technology/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Massachusetts 
>Institute of Technology, 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/stanford_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org>Stanford 
>University, the 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_california/index.html?inline=nyt-org>University 
>of California, Berkeley, the 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_maryland/index.html?inline=nyt-org>University 
>of Maryland and the 
><http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_washington/index.html?inline=nyt-org>University 
>of Washington.
>
>Google is building a data center, at an undisclosed location, that will 
>contain more than 1,600 processors by the end of the year. I.B.M. is also 
>setting up a data center for the initiative.
>
>The centers will run an open-source version of Google's data center 
>software, and I.B.M. is contributing open-source tools to help students 
>write Internet programs and data center management software.
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>The data centers under way have a small fraction of the computing 
>firepower behind Google's Internet search service. But they will be big 
>enough, scientists say, to do ambitious Internet research. Setting up and 
>running such centers, including providing the electricity and technical 
>staff, is difficult and expensive. The two companies, a person who was 
>told of their plans said, have committed a total of $30 million over two 
>years for the project.
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>"This is a huge contribution because it allows for a type of education and 
>research that we can't do today," said Edward Lazowska, a computer science 
>professor at the University of Washington.
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>The companies' and academics' long-term goal is to expand the data-center 
>clusters so students from many schools can participate and to enlist the 
>support of other companies and the federal government.
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>The companies and university scientists involved in the initiative have 
>talked to the National Science Foundation and other agencies.
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>The collaboration began after a meeting in December between Eric E. 
>Schmidt, chief executive of Google, and Samuel J. Palmisano, I.B.M.'s 
>chief executive, at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
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>In an interview on Friday, Mr. Schmidt recalled that he had sketched out 
>his vision of cloud computing on a whiteboard, emphasizing its potential 
>economic and social importance, and urged the I.B.M. chief to cooperate to 
>build the skills needed.
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>At the time, Mr. Palmisano said, he had just come out of a day of 
>technology briefings at I.B.M., and his company is doing a lot of research 
>in the same field. I.B.M. also has deep knowledge and experience in 
>building and managing complex data centers.
>
>Mr. Schmidt said, "I.B.M. has some of the best technology in the industry, 
>and we couldn't have done this without them."
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>Mr. Palmisano noted that cooperation between the two companies was easier 
>because Google is mainly a consumer company, while I.B.M. concentrates on 
>the corporate market. "We're more complementary than anything else," Mr. 
>Palmisano said. "We don't really collide in the marketplace."
>
>And by helping university students, I.B.M. and Google hope to help 
>themselves in the marketplace.
>"We're trying to create the easiest possible on-ramp for universities into 
>this world of cloud computing," said Stuart I. Feldman, a vice president 
>of engineering at Google and a former senior researcher at I.B.M. "But 
>yes, this kind of computing is core value to Google and I.B.M. We have an 
>interest, no doubt."
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>Mark Linesch :  Hewlett Packard : ESS Software
>281-514-0322 (Tel) : 281-414-7082 (Cell) : mark.linesch at hp.com
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