said.

Though the cloud research center is located at Carnegie Mellon, which is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, many universities will be involved in the research, Intel said. Intellectual property generated will be opened up for adoption.

The research is an extension of what Intel calls the "Cloud 2015 vision," which is aimed at improving cloud implementation in data centers. Intel is working with other companies so services can be delivered effectively through dynamic resource allocation and secure data sharing between external and internal clouds. The company also focuses on reference architectures for cloud deployments and cloud hardware such a "cloud-in-the-box," a small server based on Intel hardware that integrates networking, security and virtualization technologies.