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Yahoo! Grid Computing Lab At IIT- Madras
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This partnership will help IIT- Madras researchers to process and analyse huge volumes of structured and unstructured data which, to date, has been limited due to significant cost barriers in getting large computing systems operational.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012:
The R&D wing of Yahoo! India R&D announced the launch of Yahoo! Grid Computing Lab in association with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT- Madras). The lab will be set up at the IIT- Madras campus and will have a cluster of high-end servers that will allow researchers to access web-scale data and conduct research on big data and cloud computing systems.
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With more and more companies moving their business services to the cloud, it is fast becoming a crucial area for research to explore new possibilities. This partnership will help IIT- Madras researchers to process and analyse huge volumes of structured and unstructured data which, to date, has been limited due to significant cost barriers in getting large computing systems operational.
Hari Vasudev, VP, connections, Yahoo! Inc said, "At Yahoo! we believe that open and collaborative research is the best way towards building the next generation of the Web. By partnering with premier institutes like IIT-Madras, we hope to spur research in big data problems in areas such as search, personalisation and digital advertising."
Professor D Janakiram, Department of Computer Science, IIT-Madras said, "We are excited to partner with Yahoo! to advance cloud computing research in India as it opens up a new arena of exciting opportunities for our students. We are hopeful such partnerships will allow students to conduct truly breakthrough work on cloud computing and data storage systems, ultimately leading to web innovations coming to the marketplace."
Kalpana Sharma, EFYTIMES News Network
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