Nimbus [Keahey 2009] is an open source solution (licensed under the terms of the
Apache License) to turn clusters into an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for Cloud
Computing focusing mainly on scientific applications.
This solution gives to users the possibility to allocate and configure remote
resources by deploying VMs – known as Virtual Workspace Service (VWS). A VWS is
a VM manager that different frontends can invoke.
To deploy applications, Nimbus offers a “cloudkit” configuration that consists of
a manager service hosting