IBM Cuts $1.4M Deal With Romanian RoGrid, Others
As announced by IBM, the corporation that has been selected as the infrastructure provider for 6 research organizations partnered with Romania’s National Computing Initiative RoGrid. The deals are worth a total of $1.4M, as they follow the installation of supporting infrastructure in 6 major Romanian universities.
“RoGrid will use 286 compute nodes of IBM System x and BladeCenter servers at six Romanian universities that are linked together using cloud computing technologies to provide RoGrid with an overall computing capacity of 25.7 trillion calculations per second and a storage capacity equivalent to the contents of books made from 6.5 million trees.”
IBM’s involvement in this massive operation is expected to significantly help boost a very healthy amount of additional projects in Romania declared to be of national importance. Existing ones include AeroLink Knowledge Extraction and EXTREM-GRID, literally reaching international importance and as far as outer space.
As Prof. Doina Banciu, General Director of the ICI said, IBM’s new infrastructure will significantly contribute to reducing IT costs and shorten development time. This statement was backed up by one of IBM Romania’s Mihail Tudor. It anchored the ever-growing and powerful capacity of the cloud further on the global scale as well as the fact that that having a billion-dollar reputation is always a good thing.
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