The National Science Foundation on Thursday said it has awarded nearly $5 million in grants to 14 universities so they can participate in the IBM (NYSE: IBM)-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) cloud computing initiative for research projects.
Through the NSF’s Cluster Exploratory, or CLuE, program, the universities will use software and services running on the IBM-Google data center. The companies launched the joint university initiative in 2007 to help teach computer science students. UW-Madison is among the recipients.