9 October 2007
Yesterday Google and IBM announced they are partnering to provide universities with hardware, software, and services to advance training in large-scale distributed computing.
The two companies aim to enable academic institutions and their students better contribute to this emerging computing paradigm by reducing the cost of distributed computing research.
Google is excited to partner with IBM to provide resources which will better equip students and researchers to address today's developing computational challenges,
said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, in a statement.
In order to most effectively serve the long-term interests of our users, it is imperative that students are adequately equipped to harness the potential of modern computing systems and for researchers to be able to innovate ways to address emerging problems.
The first universities to be involved in this programme are the University of Washington, Carnegie-Mellon and Stanford Universities, Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT), the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland.
In a statement, Samuel J. Palmisano, chairman, president, and CEO of IBM, characterised the effort:
to train tomorrow's programmers to write software that can support a tidal wave of global Web growth and trillions of secure transactions every day.
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