IBM and Google University Academic Initiative
Google and IBM brings together with an initiative to advance large-scale distributed cloud
computing by providing hardware, software, and services to schools, institutions and
universities . This initiative allows students to use the potential of modern computing systems
and the companies will provide them with hardware,software and services to advance training in large-scale distributed cloud computing. The aim of this initiative is to reduce the cost of distributed computing research, thereby enabling academic institutions and their students to more easily contribute to this emerging computing paradigm. As part of the initiative, a cluster of several hundred computers are generally provided by IBM and Google to surpass 1,600 processors. The Linux-based servers simultaneously run open source software virtualization system and Hadoop