In collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo!, Illinois is developing an experimental testbed for data-intensive applications using distributed “cloud” computational resources. The global partnership, which also includes the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, will result in the establishment of a globally distributed, Internet-scale testing environment for advanced research in cloud computing infrastructure and services.