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Nimbus (cloud computing)

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Nimbus
Developer(s)Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman, et al.
Initial releaseTP2.2 2009-01-09
Written inJava, Python
Operating systemLinux
TypeCloud computing
LicenseApache License version 2
Websitehttp://workspace.globus.org/

Nimbus is an open-source toolkit that once installed on a cluster, provides Infrastructure as a Service cloud to its client via WSRF-based or Amazon EC2 WSDL web service APIs.

Features

  • Offers both WSRF-based and Amazon EC2 WSDL web service APIs
  • Machine virtualization technologies supported: Xen hypervisor (KVM soon)
  • Virtual machine schedulers supported: PBS, SGE
  • Allows deployment of self-configured virtual clusters via contextualization[1]
  • Configurable with respect to scheduling, networking leases, usage accounting, etc.

Requirements

  • Xen 3.1 or 3.2
  • Java 1.5+
  • Python (2.3+)
  • ebtables filtering tool for a bridging firewall
  • DHCP server
  • Globus 4.0.x Java container

See also

References

  1. ^ 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
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