__NOTOC__ Nimbus is a toolkit that, once installed on a

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, provides an

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to its client via WSRF-based or

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WSDL web service APIs. Nimbus is

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, subject to the requirements of the Apache License, version 2. Nimbus supports both the

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s Xen and KVM and virtual machine schedulers

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and Oracle Grid Engine. It allows deployment of self-configured virtual clusters via contextualization. Keahey, K., Freeman, T. (2008). "Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters", 2008 Fourth IEEE International Conference on eScience, pp.301-308. It is configurable with respect to scheduling, networking leases, and usage accounting.

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* Xen 3.x *

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1.5+ * Python (2.4+) *

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and ebtables for a bridging firewall * DHCP server

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* {{Cloud computing Cloud infrastructure Free software for cloud computing Free software programmed in Java (programming language) Free software programmed in Python Virtualization software for Linux

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