Three giants in their respective industries have joined forces to form a cloud computing effort called the Cloud Computing TestBed (CCBT). Yahoo, Intel and Hewlett Packard formed this alliance with three universities in a goal to create a venue for allied academic institutions and industry players to design, build and test applications written for cloud infrastructure - from low-level OS, network technologies, storage and user-facing output.

Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Steinbuch Centre for Computing of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany are the three educational institutions that collaborated with the industry giants in the project. Together, they aim to create six “center of excellence” data centers that is each powered with 1000-4000 processor cores.

These centers of excellence will be used to house and promote arrays of open-source collaborations by different groups, industries on a very large scale.

Google and IBM have the same project, and it is said that CCBT will be a tough competitor for the Big G and IBM collaboration.

For CCBT’s maiden project, Yahoo will release open source software such as Apache Hadoop and Pig. Intel and HP will consequently do the hardware support.

Many are positive that CCBT will further help general research as well as the IT industry itself on a. In spite of this positivity, some are still reluctant the CCBT will e a success. Issues such as IP ownership, internet privacy, data and programming security, documentation and others may give cloud computing collaboration a shady future.

Source: Tech Tree