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Eucalyptus

Developer(s)	Rich Wolski, Chris Grzegorczyk et al.
Initial release	1.0 2008-05-29[1]
Stable release	1.6.1  (2009-11-05; 19 days ago) [+/−]
Written in	Java, C
Operating system	Linux
Type	Cloud computing
License	BSD License
Website	http://open.eucalyptus.com/

Eucalyptus is an open-source infrastructure for the implementation of cloud computing on computer clusters. Its name is an acronym for "Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems". The current interface is compatible with Amazon Web Services cloud computing interface. Eucalyptus is available as a source package, RPM, and a Rocks disk image. Since the beta, it is also shipped with Ubuntu 9.04 as default cloud computing tool.^[2]

Contents 1 Features 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Features

• Compatibility with Amazon Web Services API
• Installation and deployment using Rocks Linux cluster management tools
• Secure communication between internal processes via SOAP and WS-Security
• Basic administration tools
• Able to configure multiple clusters as a single cloud^[3]

[edit] See also

• Amazon EC2

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website

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