Nimbus (cloud computing)

Nimbus is a 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 is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the Apache License, version 2.

Nimbus

Developer(s)	Kate Keahey, Tim Freeman, et al.
Initial release	TP2.2 2009-01-09
Written in	Java, Python
Operating system	Linux
Platform	Xen + KVM
Type	Cloud computing
License	Apache License version 2
Website	www.nimbusproject.org

Nimbus supports both the hypervisors Xen and KVM and virtual machine schedulers Portable Batch System and Oracle Grid Engine. 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.x
• Kernel-based Virtual Machine
• Java 1.5+
• Python (2.4+)
• Linux kernel's Netfilter and ebtables for a bridging firewall
• DHCP server

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• Cloud-computing comparison