OREANDA-NEWS. May 18, 2011. The University of Tartu's computer science institute has received a grant from one of the world's largest web service providers - 6,500 euros worth of computing power on Amazon's servers.

Senior researcher at the Institute of Computer Science's distributed systems group, Satish Srirama said access to Amazon's servers is valuable to the students due to the possibility of seeing for themselves the theory applied in practice.

"In many studies, our students are already using cloud computing services, but such as in mobile or entrepreneurial computing projects. This grant allows us even better access to even more powerful servers."