Intel Labs is pumping $30 million into a pair of new Intel Science and Technology Centres (ISTC) at Carnegie Mellon University dedicated to Cloud Computing.
The centres will house researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley, Princeton University, and Intel. Creg Ganger, a professor in electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon, will be the lead university figure at the Cloud Computing Centre.
Research topics will include built-in application optimisation, efficient and effective support of big data analytics on large amounts of online data and making the Cloud more distributed and localised by extending out to the network edge and to client devices.
Part of Intel's five-year $100 million programme to accelerate innovation and increase university research, the investment reflects the priority placed on Cloud by Intel. In the most recent financial quarter Intel saw its Data Centre Group sales jump 15% year on year, powered by Cloud Computing and enterprise server sales.
Intel's Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner said:
Intel strategic vision for Cloud Computing is known as Intel Cloud 2015, which is built around three main planks:
- A structure of interoperable federated Clouds
- Automated movement of software applications and resources
- Client-aware Clouds that know whether processing should take place in the Cloud or on a mobile device.
Intel has operated a research lab at Carnegie Mellon for the last decade.
