Using Cloud Computing to Solve Research Problems

www.ibm.com Majd Sakr, of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, and Nam Thoai, of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, discuss IBM's partnership with their insitutions to promote cloud computing. IBM has worked with Sakr and other Qatar universities to form the Cloud Computing Center, aiming to further cloud computing research in the Arab world to better utilize resource efficiency. Thoai talks about working with IBM to implement a university-wide cloud computing solution at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. [Majd Sakr, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar] My name is Majd Sakr. Im a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. Carnegie Mellon has a campus that delivers the Undergraduate Computer Science Program in Qatar. The interesting thing about Qatar is theyre trying to move away from their dependence on hydrocarbons and they want to achieve a knowledge-based economy by 2030. The government is very serious about this, that they have committed 2.8% of the GDP to basic research. One of the things that Carnegie Mellons trying to do at the home campus is to develop the new computing paradigm basically around cloud computing. And this approach really came from industry rather than from academia. So theres a lot of work that academia has to do in order to help push this approach forward. The original discussions around cloud computing were between Carnegie Mellon and IBM. But then we recognize for us to be successful, we have to <b>…</b>