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http://web.mit.edu/stardev/cluster/

Multiple Clusters – Currently, StarCluster only supports launching a single cluster on ec2. In theory, the software should be able to START multiple clusters but it’s not equipped to handle the accounting on which nodes belong to which cluster after the initial startup. This means things like listing the nodes, terminating a particular cluster, etc will not work. Support for the correct account of multiple clusters should come in future versions.

Dynamic Load Balancing – Support for a dynamically resizing cluster on ec2. Integrating the Service Domain Manager (SDM) and Hedeby software products from SUN into the AMI will allow ec2 nodes to easily be added to the Sun Grid Engine queue. This means you could theoretically start a single node cluster and as the load increases, ec2 nodes would be launched, added to the cluster, used for computation, and then removed when they’re idle. The impact of this would be to significantly lower the cost of using EC2 by only having one node up 24/7 and adding/removing nodes as needed.

http://www.cascading.org/

Cascading is a feature rich API for defining and executing complex, scale-free, and fault tolerant data processing workflows on a Hadoop cluster.

Cascading is Open Source and dual licensed under the GPL and OEM/Commercial Licenses. OEM/Commercial Licenses and Developer Support can be obtained through Concurrent, Inc.

http://cloudsplit.com/

CloudSplit is the first company to offer a real time view on what is happening on your Amazon grid from a cost perspective. We can all understand that cloud computing can significantly reduce our infrastructure spend, but even cloud costs can mount up if we use our clouds carelessly.

CloudSplit will ensure you don’t accidentally overspend, by tracking your cloud spending in real-time and giving you clear graphical breakdowns of how those costs were accrued.

http://incubator.apache.org/projects/trafficserver.html

Traffic Server fills the need for a fast, extensible and scalable HTTP 1.1 proxy and cache. We have a production proven piece of software that can deliver HTTP traffic at high rates, and can scale well on modern SMP hardware. We have benchmarked Traffic Server to handle in excess of 35,000 RPS on a single box. Traffic Server has a rich feature set, implementing most of HTTP/1.1 to the RFC specifications.

http://tech.mangot.com/roller/dave/entry/on_running_terracotta_on_ec2

One recent project he asked me to do was run a large test of Terracotta on a cloud. Any cloud. So I set out to find an appropriate cloud environment and a way to run one of our session clustering tests. What I wound up with was a framework that can be used to scale anything on EC2 with relative ease.

http://workspace.globus.org/

Nimbus is an open source toolkit that allows you to turn your cluster into an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Feature highlights include:

Implementation based on the Xen hypervisor (KVM coming soon), read more about supported virtualization technologies…

Wow. Build you own EC2.
And try selling it. Ra!

http://www.groundworkopensource.com/network-management-software.html

GroundWork Monitor is the most scalable open source system and network management software for companies with heterogeneous operating systems, application and hardware environments who want to reduce ongoing monitoring costs, consolidate views and reports and improve staff productivity.

http://elastra.com/products/elastra-for-aws

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