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'''Nimbus''' is an [[open-source]] toolkit that, once installed on a [[Cluster (computing)|cluster]], provides an [[infrastructure as a Serviceservice]] [[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 supports the [[Xen]] hypervisor or [[Kernel-based Virtual Machine|KVM]] and virtual machine schedulers [[Portable Batch System|PBS]] and [[Sun 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.