EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - 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 interfaces.
May 14th, 2008: EUCALYPTUS is publically demonstrated at the Open Source Grid and Cluster conference.
May 29th, 2008: Version 1.0 is released as a feature-limited binary-only beta.
http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/
I am happy to announce the TP 1.3.2 release — the “cloudkit release” of the Workspace Service. You can download the new release from: http://workspace.globus.org/downloads/index.html
As many of you have probably noticed we have recently been sending announcements about the availability of compute clouds for scientific communities: http://workspace.globus.org/clouds/
In a nutshell, TP 1.3.2 allows you to build your own cloud. The main addition is a new “cloud client” for the workspace service which simplifies (and also hides) much of the workspace functionality to provide an EC2-like set of features. The new client also provides a limited form of “contextualization” (more coming in the next release!). We also provide a step-by-step “cloud guide” that allows you to configure your own cloud.
For a complete set of new features (many more but less significant) look to:
http://workspace.globus.org/vm/TP1.3.2/index.html#changelog
We look forward to hearing from you — and if you do decide to configure a cloud and would like help finding users, please do let us know.
Have fun!
The Workspace Team
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Kate Keahey,
Mathematics & CS Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
From workspace-announce:
I am happy to announce the availability of a science cloud (codenamed “Stratus” ;-) at the University of Florida. This cloud introduces a new feature: the use of virtual networks with virtual machines for cloud computing.
The cloud is available for members of the scientific community: to obtain access you will need to provide a justification (a few sentences explaining your science project) to cloud administrators at UFL. To find out more go to:
http://workspace.globus.org/clouds/
The cloud is currently deployed on a modest allocation of resources as a beta project. We welcome comments, feedback, and bug reports.
If you’re feeling adventurous, there’s a workspace service pre-release out (click on the pic):
