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Yahoo! donates 257 servers for parallel computing research

October 3, 2012 —Yahoo! Inc. delivered 257 servers to Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh campus on Tuesday. The donated computers, with Intel-based processors, will be used by researchers in several different CMU departments and centers to investigate problems in security, privacy, and parallel processing of massive amounts of data. Also donated by Yahoo! were 10 Cisco switches.

SCS faculty, staff and students pose with the delivery. Don McGillen, senior manager of campus relations, Yahoo! Shown are Don McGillen, senior manager of campus relations, Yahoo!; Ed McAfoose, director of computing at CMU's Heinz College; Bill Courtright, executive director of CMU's Parallel Data Lab; Don Taylor, truck driver; Mike Smith, profession of information technology and marketing at Heinz College; and Rahul Telang, professor of information systems and management at Heinz College.