Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ) pioneered the field of cloud computing in the country, founding its very own Cloud Computing Lab (CCL) in 2009. The goal of this department is enabling the use of the cloud model for regionally relevant applications. The varsity has a cloud made of 300 computers at the service of local scientists and researchers.
Professor Majd Sakr, Founder and Director of CCL at CMUQ explained that cloud computing is the future of computer science. The computer cloud does two things, compute and store, so that people no longer need to carry the computer they use and still have access to all their files wherever they are.
For Professor Sakr, the computer clouds should be seen as a service, just like electricity or water, allowing users to be freed of maintenance and expenses that are linked to a processor. “We are moving from computing being something that we own to becoming a service. This is what we call the cloud, which is basically a remote computer, which happened because many technologies came together,” added Sakr.
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