#CLOUD: "World's Largest Academic Cloud"

Not to be left behind in the dust of industry marching forward, academia recently unveiled their largest cloud computing platform, aimed at providing the petabytes of storage required for giant scientific simulations and big-data analytics.



The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Cloud is connected to 10 other supercomputer sites nationwide on the high-speed TeraGrid network.

The world's largest academic cloud, the SDSC Cloud, serves University of California at San Diego researchers and their associates, including 10 supercomputer centers nationwide connected by the high-speed TeraGrid.
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