HP, Intel, and Yahoo Expand Open Cirrus Project

HP HPQ, Intel INTC and Yahoo YHOO today announced that four new organizations will join Open Cirrus, a global, multiple data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research. The announcement coincides with the fourth Open Cirrus Summit, hosted by Carnegie Melon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh in cooperation with HP and Yahoo!. China Mobile Research Institute, the Supercomputing Center of Galicia), China Telecom's Guangzhou Research Institute, and Georgia Tech University's Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems have become the latest to join the research effort, expanding the global footprint of Open Cirrus to 14 locations and creating the most geographically diverse cloud computing test bed currently available to researchers.