Three of the biggest names in the computing industry have joined forces in order to improve the research efforts being done for cloud computing. Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo are combining their expertise for cloud computing, which could be the IT delivery model of the future. Cloud is a network that is made of thousands of networks and cheap servers that are only as powerful as your home PC but holds huge amount of data from the Web. Through this partnership, HP, Intel and Yahoo will develop a global Open Source testing site for cloud computing. They hope to make six centers with 1,000 to 4,000 Intel processors to make up the cloud structure. This test bed will be powered by the Open Source software PIG, as well as Apache Hadoop and a program made by Yahoo Research.

Three of the six Cloud Computing Test Beds will be hosted by the three partners, while the other three will betaken cared of by Infocomm Development Authority in Singapore, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the U.S. and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.

With cloud computing, the companies hope that they will be able to breach the limitations of today’s web resources. Big service providers will be able to widen their scope in the marketplace. And the average user like you and me will be benefited with consistent computing experience because it will be easier to get the resources that we need.