LingCloud is a suite of open-source cloud computing system software developed by Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is licensed under Apache License 2.0. LingCloud provides a resource single leasing point system[1] for consolidated leasing physical and virtual machines, and supports various heterogeneous application modes including high performance computing, large scale data processing, massive data storage, etc. on shared infrastructure.[2] LingCloud can help an organization to build private cloud to manage the computing infrastructure.

LingCloud
Developer(s)Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stable release
0.9 / 31 August 2011; 13 years ago (2011-08-31)
Preview release
0.9.1 / 22 December 2011; 12 years ago (2011-12-22)
Written inJava
Operating systemLinux
Platformx64
Available inEnglish, Simplified Chinese
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitelingcloud.org

LingCloud is based on Xen virtualization platform and uses OpenNebula to manage the virtual infrastructure.[3]

Components

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The main components[4] of LingCloud release include:

  • Molva – The core of LingCloud. It is an elastic computing infrastructure management software providing a heterogeneous resource management and leasing framework, and a single controlling point of both of the infrastructure and applications.
  • Portal – System management interface via web. Current modules include:
    • Infrastructure management: physical and virtual machines management by partitions and clusters.
    • Application encapsulation: virtual appliance creation and management.
    • System monitor: clusters run-time information monitor.

Release history

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The open-source version of LingCloud was released in May 2011.

Version Release date Note
0.8 28 May 2011 [5]
0.9 31 August 2011 [6]
0.9.1 22 December 2011

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Xiaoyi Lu; Jian Lin; Li Zha; Zhiwei Xu (May 2011). Vega LingCloud: A Resource Single Leasing Point System to Support Heterogeneous Application Modes on Shared Infrastructure. ISPA 2011. Busan, Korea. doi:10.1109/ISPA.2011.58.
  2. ^ "LingCloud Introduction". LingCloud Wiki. LingCloud Team. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  3. ^ "OpenNebula Featured Users". OpenNebula Website. OpenNebula Project Leads. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  4. ^ "LingCloud Technology". LingCloud Wiki. LingCloud Team. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  5. ^ "LingCloud Open Source Cloud Computing System Is Released". LingCloud Website. LingCloud Team. Archived from the original on 19 October 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  6. ^ "LingCloud 0.9 Releases". LingCloud Website. LingCloud Team. Archived from the original on 27 November 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
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