Posted on August 8th, 2011
Intel Labs (techresearch.intel.com) made an announcement that it has set up an Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing that integrates the work of Intel data center professionals and researchers, at the Carnegie Mellon. All these technical experts will be working together to address the problems in device and task specialization, automation for agility and scalability, analysis of large quantities of information and interaction between intelligence at the offices and in data centers.
In October last year, numerous IT end-users and Intel founded the Open Data Center Alliance to become a part of the program. The center is only one of the two Intel Science and Technology Centers, located at Carnegie Mellon University, set up by Intel as a program with $30 million investment, comprising Intel Embedded Computing Center. These centers are divisions of the five year, $100 million ISTC program of Intel, developed to expand university research and produce innovation in major areas.
According to Intel, these centers will promote “tighter collaboration between university thought leaders and Intel” by utilizing open IP models with results, accessible to all, via publications and open source software releases.
“These new ISTCs are expected to open amazing possibilities,” said Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at Intel. “Imagine, for example, future cars equipped with embedded sensors and microprocessors to constantly collect and analyze traffic and weather data. That information could be shared and analyzed in the cloud so that drivers could be provided with suggestions for quicker and safer routes.”
The ISTC develops a new cloud computing research society that expands Intel’s “Cloud 2015” idea, with different designs, from leading academic experts. The ISTC project was also extended, by inviting researchers, from different US academic institutions to provide data-valuable to the project.
At least, one center will be awarded, by the company, by the end of 2011 and will be introduced successfully in 2012.