Raleigh-based North Carolina State University (www.ncsu.edu) has accepted a major contribution to its Virtual Computing Lab (vcl.ncsu.edu) from computer processor giant Intel. The company has donated $2.4 million to the Lab for the purchase of equipment. The Lab is designed to bring affordable computing resources to K-12 schools, community colleges and universities throughout the state of North Carolina. Lab partners include East Carolina University; North Carolina Central University; University of North Carolina (UNC) Greensboro; UNC Chapel Hill; Duke University; NCSU College of Engineering, Information Technology Division, and Friday Institute/College of Education; IBM Corporation; Intel; NetApp; SAS Institute; and Sun Microsystems.<
NCSU is a CED member.