The Apache VCL incubator project.
VCL, Virtual Computing Lab. The VCL can be many things, foremost it is a open-source system used dynamically provision and broker remote access to a compute environment. These computers are typically housed in a data center, a physical blade server, a virtual machine or a standalone machine.
One of the primary goals of VCL is to deliver a dedicated compute environment to a user for a limited time through a web interface. This compute environment can range from something simple as a virtual machine running an productivity software to a machine room blade running high end software (i.e. a CAD, GIS,statistical package or an Enterprise level application) to a cluster of interconnected physical (bare metal) compute nodes.
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JIRA |
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Development List |
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User mailing List |
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VCL 2.1 Goals |
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User Documentation |
Documentation goals (work in progress) |
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Terminology: Bare-metal = The physical server such as a blade server.Node = a computerResources = Can be a compute node, an image, a management node, a scheduleManagement Nodes = a process server or the machine where vcld is running. Processes assigned user-requests, does the provisioning. Provides scalability in a large environment.