Yahoo! today announced that it has expanded its partnerships
with top U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The
University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon
University in using Yahoo!’s cloud computing cluster to conduct
large-scale systems software research and explore new applications that
analyze Internet-scale data sets, ranging from voting records to online
news sources.
At Berkeley the Computational Science and Engineering program
anticipates that the Yahoo! cluster will be used by a broad array of
faculty investigators and graduate students from social scientists and
economists to astrophysicist and Bioengineers. Obviously, an exciting
aspect of this work will be working with Yahoo! to analyze large scale
social-economical-political data by our faculty and to further refine
these target areas, and to identify new ones among the vast array of
potential computational research avenues at UC Berkeley and LBNL. The
breadth of this enterprise promises to create extensive new
applications of interest to Yahoo! for high performance and cloud
computing.
More about press release:
Yahoo! Partners with Four Top Universities to Advance Cloud
Computing Systems and Applications Research :
http://research.yahoo.com/node/2743
Yahoo! Cloud Computing:
http://research.yahoo.com/Cloud_Computing
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Computational Science and Engineering Program:
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Masoud Nikravesh
CITRIS & LBNL Executive Director,
Computational Science and Engineering
Nikravesh@eecs.bekeley.edu
Office: (510) 643-4522
Sutardja Dai Hall #1764
Berkeley, CA 94720-1764
We are accepting both graduate and senior undergraduate
students. To apply for Yahoo! Cloud account please contact Dr.
Nikravesh at: Nikravesh@eecs.bekeley.edu
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About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the
most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on
powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and
developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo!
is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit
pressroom.yahoo.com or the company’s blog, Yodel Anecdotal.
http://research.yahoo.com/
About CSE Program
UC Berkeley has created a new graduate program in
Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). The new graduate program
was developed and is supported by the Center for Information Technology
Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the Computing Sciences
Directorate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab),
and the College of Engineering, the College of Letters and Science, the
College of Chemistry, and the office of the Vice Chancellor for
Research at the University of California (UC) Berkeley.