[Research] Growing gap between academia and industry on cloud computing

[Donghan (Jarod) Wang]

Hey,

Matt Welsh, a senior software engineer at Google, provides some
insights on his latest blog regarding the matter. For folks who
involve or are interested in cloud computing, the article is certainly
thought provoking.

Here it is:
http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-can-academics-do-research-on-cloud.html

Another shining part of the article is a list of open cloud infrastructures:

1. OpenCirrus
by HP/Intel/Yahoo!
https://opencirrus.org/

2. Azure cloud platform
by Microsoft
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/azure/

3. Exacycle (open to visiting faculty at Google)
by Google
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2011/04/1-billion-core-hours-of-computational.html

4. Research grant program
by Amazon
http://aws.amazon.com/education/


Jarod

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