[Xen-users] Announcing Nimbus 2.5 final release

[Tim Freeman <tfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nimbus is, among other things, a set of tools for making Xen available to
remote users using popular protocols.

Thanks,
Tim


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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:08:26 -0500
From: Kate Keahey <keahey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Announcing Nimbus 2.5 final release


We are happy to announce the Nimbus 2.5 release!

This release introduces two major new features. The first one is the Cumulus
storage cloud implementation that has been integrated with the Workspace
Service but can also be used standalone. Cumulus is compatible with the Amazon
Web Services S3 REST API and has a pluggable backend that allows it to support
multiple storage systems used by the scientific community. It also includes
support for quota management. Cumulus replaces the current GridFTP-based
upload and download of VM images. The second new feature is the Zero -> Cloud
installation process, which significantly simplifies Nimbus installation and
also includes user management tools.

In addition, this release also contains new scheduling and network
configuration options, new propagation methods, new workspace pilot options,
as well as multiple smaller features and bugfixes -- too many to cover them
all in an announcement! The full list is available in the changelog at:
http://www.nimbusproject.org/docs/2.5/changelog.html#2.5

The community testing and feedback has been an invaluable help. This has been 
the most active and productive release cycle that Nimbus has seen and resulted
in a product that all of us can be proud of. We would like to thank all who
volunteered their effort to help with testing and submitted patches to this
release. In particular, we'd like to thank Patrick Armstrong, Colin
Leavett-Brown, Paul Marshall, Paulo Motta, Pierre Riteau, Marien Ritzenthaler,
and Matt Vliet.

The Nimbus 2.5 release is available for download at:
http://www.nimbusproject.org/downloads/

Documentation is available at:
http://www.nimbusproject.org/docs/2.5/

The Nimbus Team

Kate Keahey
Mathematics and CS Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Computation Institute, University of Chicago

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