Nimbus (cloud computing)
| Developer(s) | Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman, et al. |
|---|---|
| Initial release | TP2.2 2009-01-09 |
| Written in | Java, Python |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | Xen + KVM |
| Type | Cloud computing |
| License | Apache License version 2 |
| Website |
www |
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 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.
Requirements
- Xen 3.x
- Kernel-based Virtual Machine
- Java 1.5+
- Python (2.4+)
- Linux kernel's Netfilter and ebtables for a bridging firewall
- DHCP server
See also
- Amazon EC2 computing and storage provider
- Cloud computing comparison
- Eucalyptus alternative open source IaaS software
- openQRM
- oVirt
- Ganeti – by Google
References
- ↑ 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
External links
- Nimbus website
- Science Clouds available
- Xen hypervisor
- ebtables software
- ISC DHCP software
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/23/2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.