Archive for the tag 'nimbus'

Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 29 Jan 2009

Open Source Cloud and some options

There are a number of options if you want to explore open source cloud. Below we touch open just a few: Eucalyptus framework: Eucalyptus is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side [...]

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Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 27 Jan 2009

And now there be Science Clouds

Nimbus is an EC2 implementation to provide compute cycles in the cloud for scientific communities. Nimbus is an open source toolkit that allows you to turn your cluster into an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. NImbus provides: Two sets of Web Service interfaces: Amazon EC2 WSDLs and Grid community WSRF Implementation based on the Xen hypervisor (KVM coming soon) [...]

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