CCL to Participate in Google/IBM Cluster Pilot

In the 2008-2009 school year, junior and senior students in the CSE department will have the opportunity to learn techniques for large scale computing on clusters used by large internet service providers. Google and IBM have announced the 2008 Academic Cluster Initiative , which will provide a 1000-node machine for use by university students around the country. Students in Professor Douglas Thain’s distributed systems and operating systems classes will learn how to write large data intensive programs in languages such as Map-Reduce on this cluster.