Eucalyptus — Open source cloud computing service similar to Amazon’s EC2
Eucalyptus is a free and open source program defined as “Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems.”
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Overall, the goal of the EUCALYPTUS project is to foster community research and development of Elastic/Utility/Cloud service implementation technologies, resource allocation strategies, service level agreement (SLA) mechanisms and policies, and usage models. The current release is version 1.0 and it includes the following features:
* Interface compatibility with EC2
* Simple installation and deployment using Rocks cluster-management tools
* Simple set of extensible cloud allocation policies
* Overlay functionality requiring no modification to the target Linux environment
* Basic “Cloud Administrator” tools for system management and user accounting
* The ability to configure multiple clusters, each with private internal network addresses, into a single Cloud.The initial version of EUCALYPTUS requires Xen to be installed on all nodes that can be allocated, but no modifications to the “dom0″ installation or to the hypervisor itself.
Eucaplyptus is developed at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) where I attended grad school. I’ll look these guys up and learn more.
[via Thinking Sysadmin]