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NOTOC. Nimbus is a toolkit that , once installed on a cluster , provides an infrastructure as a service cloud to its client via WSRF-based or Amazon EC2 WSDL web service APIs .. cluster. Cluster ( computing ). infrastructure as a service. infrastructure as a service. cloud. cloud computing. WSRF. Web Services Resource Framework. Amazon EC2. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. WSDL. Web Services Description Language. web service. web service. APIs. Application programming interface. Nimbus is free and open-source software , subject to the requirements of the Apache License , version 2 .. free and open-source software. free and open-source software. Apache License. Apache License. Nimbus supports both the hypervisors Xen and KVM and virtual machine schedulers Portable Batch System and Oracle Grid Engine .. Xen. Xen. KVM. Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Portable Batch System. Portable Batch System. Oracle Grid Engine. Oracle Grid Engine. It allows deployment of self-configured virtual clusters via contextualization .. It is configurable with respect to scheduling , networking leases , and usage accounting .