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LingCloud

LingCloud is a suite of cloud computing system software developed by the Research Group of Distributed and Cloud Computing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. LingCloud provides a resource single leasing point system 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. LingCloud can help to build private clouds for governments, enterprises, schools and research institutes, and it is also suitable to construct public clouds for managing data centers.

LingCloud has been adopted in some affiliations of China. In order to promote the development of cloud computing industry in China and strengthen the communication between academia and industry, the LingCloud development team decides to make LingCloud open-source. The main part of LingCloud is licensed under Apache License 2.0. We welcome any organizations or individuals dedicated to cloud computing to get involved in the development of LingCloud sincerely. Let's contribute to the development of China's cloud computing industry together.

New Version

  • 2011.08.31: LingCloud 0.9 releases, welcome to download. LingCloud Wiki is available, providing deployment documents and user manuals.
  • 2011.05.28: LingCloud 0.8 releases. It is the first open-source version of LingCloud.

What can LingCloud do?

  • Resource partition: physical machine resource is organized and managed by the unit of partition, which supports multiple application modes and resource usage modes.
  • Resource leasing: virtual and physical machines leasing is supported by the unit of cluster to achieve resource provisioning on demand.
  • Application encapsulation: make virtual appliances (virtual machine image template) through the web portal to help encapsulation and fast deployment of applications.

More features to be released

What advantages does LingCloud have?

  • Freedom
    Combination of independent intellectual property and open-source technologies.
  • Intensive
    Virtual resource management to make full use of hardware.
    Coexistence of physical machines and virtual machines to ensure performance requirements.
    Multiple resource scheduling strategies for different optimizing goals.
  • Efficient
    Lease on demand, fast cluster deployment.
    Clusters to be automatically configured with required application environment, "One-Click Deployment". *
  • Security
    Ensure isolation of LingCloud from application systems at runtime.
    Global single sign-on *
    Real-time monitor and for resource running state.
  • Usability
    Easy to learn and low cost for management and maintenance.
    Optimized remote login protocol to provide good user experience *

* Features to be released