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May 06, 2011

Red Hat Expands Technology Partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison

By Sujata Garud, TMCnet Contributor


Red Hat (News - Alert), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced the expansion of its technology partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) to establish the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) as the first Red Hat Center of Excellence Development Partner. Moreover, Red Hat unveiled that it has considered the UW-Madison CHTC as the first recipient of its Red Hat Cloud Leadership Award for its advancements in cloud computing based on the open source Condor project and Red Hat technologies.

“We began developing and deploying grid technology in today’s cloud computing models many years before the cloud became such a compelling industry trend. We see a natural partnership between what we do with Condor technologies on the university and national laboratory level and with what Red Hat does with these technologies in the commercial software industry,” Miron Livny, professor of computer science at University of Wisconsin, director of the Center of High Throughput Computing and CTO of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, said in a statement. “In both cases, we are committed to the open source model of moving innovation into the marketplace and bringing the benefits of grid and cloud technology to the masses.”

In 2007, Red Hat and UW-Madison first partnered around the Center for High Throughput Computing when the strategic partnership was signed to co-develop the Condor technologies. The CHTC has been advancing the state of the art and promoting the adoption of technologies supporting High Throughput Computing.

Red Hat was recently in news when the company and IBM (News - Alert) announced that they were working together to make products and solutions based on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) technology the open virtualization choice for the enterprise. Together, the companies are driving adoption of the open source virtualization technology through joint development projects and enablement of the KVM ecosystem.


Sujata Garud is a TMCnet freelancer with three years of writing/editing experience and two years of market research experience. As an editor she has covered the IT, electronics, banking, pharma, construction, mining and healthcare industries. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin