What are the main Nimbus components?
• The Workspace Service site manager • A WSRF based remote protocol implementation • An EC2 based remote protocol implementation of their SOAP and Query APIs (partial) • Cumulus is an open source implementation of the Amazon S3 REST API. It is used as the Nimbus repository solution and can also be installed standalone. • The RM API bridge between remote protocols/security and specific site manager implementations. • The cloud client aims to get users up and running in minutes with instance launches and one-click clusters. • The reference client exposes the entire feature set in the WSRF protocol as a commandline client (with underlying Java client library). For advanced uses, scripting, portal integration, etc. • The Workspace Pilot allows you to integrate VMs with resources already configured to manage jobs (i.e., already using a batch scheduler like PBS). • The workspace-control agent implements VMM and network specific tasks on each hypervisor. • The Context Broker allows clients to
