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Nimbus is an open-source 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 supports the Xen hypervisor and virtual machine schedulers PBS and SGE. 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 3.1 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

• Xen hypervisor
• Amazon EC2 computing and storage provider
• Eucalyptus alternative open source IaaS software

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

External links

• Nimbus website
• Science Clouds available
• Xen hypervisor
• ebtables software
• ISC DHCP software

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