Yahoo Inc. on Thursday announced partnerships with universities to advance cloud computing research.

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By San Francisco Business Times
Thursday, April 9, 2009

Yahoo Inc. on Thursday announced partnerships with universities to advance cloud computing research.

The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon University in using Sunnyvale-based Yahoo’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems software research and explore new applications that analyze Internet-scale data sets, ranging from voting records to online news sources.

The cluster has approximately 4,000 processor-cores and 1.5 petabytes of disks.

In July 2008, Yahoo joined forces with Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HP), Santa Clara-based Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Infocomm Development Authority in Singapore, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany to create Open Cirrus, an open source test bed for advancing cloud computing research and education.