Research groups join Open Cirrus - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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Palo Alto-based HP Santa Clara-based Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Sunnyvale-base d Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) said the Open Cirruas cloud computingtest bed, which was launched in July 2008, was createds as a joint effort by the companies to promoted open collaboration among industry, academia and governmentds "by removing the financial and logisticalo barriers to research in data-intensive, Internet-scale computing." The test bed, which has more than 50 researcb projects currently underway, simulates a global, Internet-scale environment and lets researchers test applicationd and measure the performance of infrastructurew and services built to run on large-scale cloud systems.
The new sitews will contribute tools andbest practices, and will help furtheer benchmark and compare alternativre approaches to service managementg at datacenter scale. They are the Russiamn Academy of Sciences, the first Eastern European institution to join Open the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Soutg Korea and MIMOSof