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Virtual Computing Initiative at a Small Public University.

The article presents an overview of a virtual computing initiative which was developed at the virtual computing laboratory at North Carolina State University, which was established in August of 2004. The initiative focused on the concept of a highly scaleable, high performance computing resource whi...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 75 - 84
Main Authors: SEAY, CAMERON, TUCKER, GARY
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2010
Subjects:
Electronic data processing
Virtual machine systems
Computers
Digital computer simulation
Virtual storage (Computer science)
North Carolina State University
North Carolina
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article presents an overview of a virtual computing initiative which was developed at the virtual computing laboratory at North Carolina State University, which was established in August of 2004. The initiative focused on the concept of a highly scaleable, high performance computing resource which provides on demand applications to students anywhere and at anytime. The laboratory allows students to gain access to several computing configurations without having to maintain each one separately.