Industry giants Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo announced Tuesday a joint project to research large-scale cloud computing, the ability to use applications, servers, storage and other computing services on the Net without hosting, maintaining or configuring them locally. Early cloud applications include desktop office suites, but have rapidly grown to include enterprisewide services such as storage and network management.

What’s in the Cloud?

The three companies will create a Cloud Computing tryout Bed that will accommodate global, large-scale applications. The hope is that researchers will be able to tryout designs, computing and infrastructure requirements and train students and other scientists in the use of cloud computing. The tryout beds will be hosted in the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.

Prith Banerjee, senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs, said, “To realize the full potential of cloud computing, the technology industry

must think about the cloud as a platform for creating new services and experiences. that requires an entirely new approach to the way we design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure and services. The HP, Intel and Yahoo Cloud Computing tryout Bed lets us tap the brightest minds in the industry, academia and government to drive innovation in that area.”

Researchers hope to develop applications that can harness the collective computing potential of the World Wide Web, distributing input and applications by many processors and network facilities. In essence, networked applications could surpass the ability of multiple supercomputers and have storage capacities that no individual institution could manage on its own.

Banerjee plus suggested cloud applications could become highly predictive and anticipatory, serving input and services to businesses and individuals with little or no initiation on their part, based solely on past usage and locality.

Nuts and Bolts

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