Nimbus (cloud computing)

Nimbus is a toolkit that, once installed on a cluster, provides an infrastructure as a service cloud to its client via WSRF-based or Amazon EC2 WSDL web service APIs. Nimbus is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the Apache License, version 2.

Nimbus
Developer(s)Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman, et al.
Initial releaseTP2.2 2009-01-09
Written inJava, Python
Operating systemLinux
PlatformXen + KVM
TypeCloud computing
LicenseApache License version 2
Websitewww.nimbusproject.org

Nimbus supports both the hypervisors Xen and KVM and virtual machine schedulers Portable Batch System and Oracle Grid Engine. It allows deployment of self-configured virtual clusters via contextualization.[1] It is configurable with respect to scheduling, networking leases, and usage accounting.

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References

  1. Keahey, K., Freeman, T. (2008). "Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters", 2008 Fourth IEEE International Conference on eScience, pp.301-308. doi:10.1109/eScience.2008.82
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