More Cloud Computing from HP, Yahoo, and Intel

Published on July 29, 2008 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Today was a somewhat "big" announcement that Yahoo, Intel, and HP have teamed up to research more on "cloud computing".

"The CCTB will consist of six actual sites, ostentatiously dubbed "centers of excellence," each of which will house about 1,000 to 4,000 processor cores. When those six initial centers are ganged together into one large cloud, the resulting machine will have a core count that should put it somewhere in the Top 20 supercomputers list, depending on the number of cores per site. (Of course, comparing a "cloud" to anything in the Top 20 list is apples-to-oranges on any number of levels, but I bring it up to give a sense of the size of the core count.) "

The joint Test Bed looks like an interesting project, but I wonder what will actually come out of this research.

Read more at Ars Technica.

Comments

Coffeebandit

on Jul 29, 2008

Who knows with those guys

vStyler

on Jul 30, 2008

Some may say its the beginning of the end.

Scotteh

on Jul 31, 2008

I can certainly appreciate vStyler's stand point, it's a somewhat ugly notion that in the future only large corporations will have direct access to computing power and the rest of us are merley fed it down a pipeline.

Also, surely Intel stand to lose a lot out of this, if the majority of computational tasks are taken away from your average desktop machine?

Mocking_Hands

on Jul 31, 2008

Some may say its the beginning of the end.

If they find cloud computing to be a viable strategy who do you think is going to be supplying the hardware and programs? I could care less about the idea, I don't have anything to hide on my computer but I would be pissed if I had to use it and they charge me exorbitant fees to play videogames on "high"

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