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IBM/Google Cloud Computing University Initiative
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<p>IBM was a 2009 project using the resources developed in 2007's IBM/Google Cloud Computing partnership. This initiative was to provide access to <a href="/facts/Cloud_computing/guhg0FGV">cloud computing</a> for the universities of all countries. </p><p>This initiative was funded by the <a href="/facts/National_Science_Foundation/FlDT8TbW">National Science Foundation</a> awarding $5 million in grants to 14 universities, including <a href="/facts/Kyushu_University/duWa5tYG">Kyushu University</a>, <a href="/facts/University_of_Washington/36PG6qkG">University of Washington</a>, <a href="/facts/Carnegie_Mellon_University/XKd7L2KA">Carnegie Mellon University</a>, and <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Xk49vNA8">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>. The goal of this initiative was to enhance university curricula in parallel programming techniques and to promote cloud computing research and development. </p><p>With funding help from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the cloud computing initiative provided assistance to hundreds of university scientists working on research projects. </p><p>By 2011, Google and IBM were completing the program since high-performance cloud computing clusters had become widely available to researchers at reasonable costs. </p>