Google is offering up the fruits of its tireless pioneering efforts to the infants of the next computer science generation. They have announced from their Googleblog that they will be passing on their knowledge from their revolutionary work in the world of mass parallel computing – using networks of computers, as apposed to single processors, to process the massive internet-scale amount of data – to the young and striving students of the computer sciences.

Already included in the implementation are various universities, such as Washington, Stanford, California at Berkeley and Maryland. The program is called the “Academic Cluster Computing Initiative Pilot Program”, and the University of Washington, along with others, has developed course material. AJAX tutorials, video lecture content, and much more is available freely for anyone to make use of. On top of this big step forward, IBM has partnered with Google in the program – the two companies have begun providing the hardware resources that are much needed to facilitate in-depth student research into the obstacles of parallel computing development. Grid Today states that hundreds of computers are already dedicated to the project, which is planned to grow to include thousands.

This is definitely a significant step into the future, as the effects will be exponential, and the next generation will push the already bustling development even further. We have very exciting times ahead in search and related technologies to look forward to.

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