Nimbus (cloud computing)
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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.
DevelopersKate Keahey, Tim Freeman, et al.
Initial releaseTP2.2 2009-01-09
| Nimbus | |
|---|---|
| Developers | 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 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
