NIMBUS TEAM

Research. Cloud computing is a game-changing paradigm that raises challenging questions across many areas. Our team has been advancing the debate on how it should be best adapted to the needs of scientific projects through our research contributions... Development. Scalable, production-quality code is the best way to shape the cloud computing paradigm to the needs of science. Our team created the pioneering Nimbus toolkit and is now working on adapting cloud computing to the needs of Computer Science systems experimentation via CHI-in-a-Box... While pioneering and committed to a quality implementation, Nimbus remained primarily a research project. In the early 2010s, the OpenStack IaaS cloud implementation emerged as a viable alternative to Nimbus, with strong support from the open source community. To better leverage the momentum behind cloud-related development, the Nimbus team transitioned to become an OpenStack contributor, always advocating the needs of the scientific community,..

Also known as: Nimbus, Nimbus Project