A new open source project dubbed StarCluster has been released aiming to simplify the management of virtual clusters hosted on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. According to developer Justin Riley, StarCluster minimises the administrative overhead associated with obtaining, configuring, and managing a traditional computing cluster used in research labs or for general distributed computing applications. The StarCluster project started at MIT's Software Tools for Academics and Researchers (STAR) Program.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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