LingCloud
| Company type | Open-source software |
|---|---|
| Industry | Cloud computing |
| Founded | May 2011 |
| Founder | Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Headquarters | China |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Cloud computing platform software |
| Owner | Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Website | code |
LingCloud is an open-source cloud computing platform created by the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, distributed under the Apache License 2.0. It provides a unified resource leasing environment for both physical servers and virtual machines, accommodating various application scenarios including high-performance computing, extensive data processing, and large-scale data storage on a shared infrastructure. LingCloud facilitates the establishment of private clouds to optimize infrastructure management within organizations.
The system is constructed atop the Xen virtualization technology and utilizes OpenNebula for managing virtual infrastructures, combining these mature technologies to offer scalable cloud solutions.
Components
LingCloud's primary components consist of:
- Molva – This is the fundamental elastic computing infrastructure management software that supports leasing and management of heterogeneous resources, acting as a centralized control interface for both infrastructure and application layers.
- Portal – A web-based management console that includes:
- Infrastructure administration: overseeing physical and virtual machines through partitions and clusters.
- Application packaging: enabling the creation and administration of virtual appliances.
- System monitoring: providing real-time performance tracking of clusters.
Release history
The initial open-source release of LingCloud occurred in May 2011.
| Version | Release date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.8 | 28 May 2011 | |
| 0.9 | 31 August 2011 | |
| 0.9.1 | 22 December 2011 |