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The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced two cloud...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced two cloud computing projects worth a total of $20 million, in a news release Wednesday (http://1.usa.gov/1wa8ya9). The projects, named Chameleon and CloudLab, will let academics “develop and experiment with novel cloud architectures and pursue…

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new, architecturally-enabled applications of cloud computing,” it said. The projects will fall under the NSFCloud program and are expected to “revolutionize the science and engineering for cloud computing,” said Suzi Iacono, acting head of NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. The foundation decided to fund the projects after a public proposal period, a spokesman said.