Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) has been released today bringing highly
interesting new features, specially in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization
area. The new Ubuntu server distribution includes two complementary cloud
tools, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus, so providing the technology required to
build the three types of Cloud architectures, namely private, hybrid and
public clouds.
Eucalyptus can be used to transform an existing infrastructure into an
IaaS public cloud, being compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface.
Eucalyptus is fully functional with respect to providing cloud-like
interfaces and higher-level cloud functionality for security,
contextualization and image management. OpenNebula, on the other hand, is a
virtual infrastructure engine that enables the dynam... (more)
In my post "Interfaces for Private and Public Cloud Computing", I briefly
described the main differences between public and private cloud computing
from the perspective of their different application scope and interfaces. My
position was that a private cloud interface should provide rich enough
semantics, far beyond of that provided by public clouds (such as Amazon EC2
APIs), to ease the... (more)
The HPCcloud discussion group has been created in order to address the
growing interest in High Performance Computing and Grid Computing in the
Cloud. The purpose of this group is to present experiences and scenarios by
individuals, organizations and projects to illustrate how Cloud computing
can enhance the different types of distributed and high performance computing
infrastructures in... (more)
The integration of two clans of computation, ‘grid’ and ‘cloud’
computing, is moving closer through collaboration between the projects
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) and Resources and Services
Virtualisation without Barriers (RESERVOIR).
The two teams will work together to explore how the institutes providing
computing resources to EGEE could benefit from adopting a ‘private cloud’ ... (more)
Last Friday, the OpenNebula project announced the implementation of the OGF
OCCI draft specification. The release, that will be part of OpenNebula
1.4, includes a server implementation, clients command for using the
service and enabling access to the full functionality of the OCCI interface,
and several supporting documents. The last version of this open source
toolkit for cloud compu... (more)