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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 Internet 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 Test Bed that will accommodate global, large-scale applications. The hope is that researchers will be able to test designs, computing and infrastructure requirements and train students and other scientists in the use of cloud computing. The test 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. This requires an entirely new approach to the way we design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure and services. The HP, Intel and Yahoo Cloud Computing Test Bed lets us tap the brightest minds in the industry, academia and government to drive... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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