Nimbus (cloud computing): Difference between revisions

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| programming language = [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]]

| operating system = [[Linux]]

| platform = [[Xen]] + [[Kernel-based Virtual Machine|KVM]]

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| genre = [[Cloud computing]]

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| website = {{URL|http://www.nimbusproject.org/}}

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'''Nimbus''' is an [[open-source]]a toolkit that, once installed on a [[Cluster (computing)|cluster]], provides an [[infrastructure as a service]] [[cloud computing|cloud]] to its client via [[Web Services Resource Framework|WSRF]]-based or [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud|Amazon EC2]] [[Web Services Description Language|WSDL]] [[web service]] [[Application programming interface|APIs]]. Nimbus is [[free and open-source software]], subject to the requirements of the [[Apache License]], version 2.

Nimbus supports both the [[hypervisor]]s [[Xen]] hypervisor orand [[Kernel-based Virtual Machine|KVM]] and virtual machine schedulers [[Portable Batch System|PBS]] and [[SunOracle Grid Engine|SGE]]. It allows deployment of self-configured virtual clusters via contextualization.<ref>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}}</ref> It is configurable with respect to scheduling, networking leases, and usage accounting.

==Requirements==

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* [[Java (programming language)|Java]] 1.5+

* [[Python (programming language)|Python]] (2.4+)

* ebtables[[Linux filteringkernel]]'s tool[[Netfilter]] and ebtables for a bridging firewall

* DHCP server

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* [[Cloud computing comparison]]

* [[Eucalyptus (computing)|Eucalyptus]] alternative open source IaaS software

* [[XenopenQRM]] hypervisor

* [[oVirt]]

* [[Ganeti]] – by Google

==References==