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University of Nebraska-Lincoln Receives New Computers From IBM

Posted on: Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 15:00 CST

By Virgil Larson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.

Feb. 22--IBM has donated a new line of computers to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for joint research on computing trends.

A lab to be set up at the College of Business Administration will house the IBM System i5 computer platform. IBM occasionally will lend experts to UNL and will take on students as interns.

An example of a trend the research will examine is on-demand computing, said Sang Lee, chairman of the college's management department. In on-demand computing, rather than a customer buying a computer and using only 10 percent of its capacity, IBM would install a new computer but adjust it to provide only 10 percent capacity. IBM then can increase the capacity as the user needs.

"Just like everything else these days, the customer is the king," Lee said Tuesday. "IBM is trying to provide computer services based on what the customer needs.

"We want to include on-demand computing, a leading-edge technology, in our information systems courses. So we need IBM support and collaboration."

No exact value has been put on the IBM donation, Lee said. "We think it's in excess of a million dollars in hardware and software."

Lee plans to have the lab ready by the fall semester.

Already, 15 universities worldwide have said they want to be partners in the UNL program, Lee said. "It's going to expand, of course, once we set up the lab."

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