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NSF, Google, IBM partner in research computing
On 25 February 2008, the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate announced a strategic relationship with Google and IBM that will provide the academic research community with access to a large-scale, distributed computing cluster. Currently this cluster includes approximately 1600 processors and access has been granted to a few universities. NSF will release a formal RFP (at a future date that has not yet been specified) to permit researchers to request access to the resource.
Please see http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111186&org=olpa&from=news and http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20071008_ibm_univ.html for more information.