Google and IBM, expanding an effort that began at the University of Washington, will launch an initiative to help computer science students and researchers learn a form of programming increasingly significant in the Internet age.

The companies are dedicating a data center of several hundred computers for universities to use to teach "Internet-scale" programming -- the development of software applications that can harness thousands of processors to deal with massive amounts of data.

Well-known examples of Internet-scale applications include Wikipedia, Facebook and search engines, such as the one for which Google is famous. Such programs are also needed for commercial and research projects that use huge data sets.

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