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HP research grant awarded!
Aug 14th
We received HP’s open innovation research grant (co-authored the proposal) for next year. Yay!
(HP + Yahoo + Intel)Labs = Cloud Computing Testbed !
Jul 29th
We (people@HP labs) have known about this for some time, but are told to strictly keep it a secret. HP, Yahoo and Intel research divisions are working together on a huge cloud computing testbed that can be used by researchers in academics and else where. You can read the corporate blurb here.
This has a lot of interesting implications for the business divisions of all three companies. However, I feel that this is a cool thing for research folks. It has always been difficult to do research in data center management in universities, as we don’t have the infrastructure similar to what Google or Amazon has. This initiative goes beyond Planet Lab, EC2, and Emulab, where you are using the resources, rather than researching the management of resources. Once you gain access (hopefully I will soon 
), you will be given complete control over the physical machines rather than the containers/virtual machines that you get in Planet Lab and Co.
HP Mini Data Center
Feb 7th
HP Labs has been very generous and sent us 16 C-class blades worth about 150K$. My professor and I were pleasantly surprised when we got the gift. The blades are awesome and are best of the breed. The blades, I am currently using in HP labs are actually older ! These blades are quite powerful and can be totally managed remotely with iLO, once setup.
Obviously, we are being very careful in setting it up here. For past few days, my colleague Howard and I are looking at the power, cooling requirements, rack setup etc. It’s going to take some time to set it all up. We plan to build a mini data center. Yay!