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IT Trends | Feature
When UCLA found out that a planned upgrade to its brick and mortar data center was going to surpass the original budget estimate by several million dollars, it began thinking "inside the box"--and chose cargo-container computing.
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Cloud Computing | Feature
Scaling Up the Virtual Computing Lab
Universities are working together and sharing resources to create virtual labs with more powerful computing capabilities--and to save much-needed cash.
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Interview
A High-Tech Barn Raising
At Purdue University, the Community Cluster Program is changing the way high-performance computers are built and maintained. By pooling their resources and contributing nodes to a centralized facility, faculty and researchers have access to much greater computing power that’s maintained for them by central computing staff. And they are invited to join about 300 people who roll up their sleeves and help construct a supercomputer in a single day’s “barn raising” event. Campus Technology asked VP of IT/CIO Gerry McCartney how it all works…
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