Overview

Nova provides virtualized clusters atop a physical cluster so that it can be treated as a pool of computing resources.

The system has several modules. A master node is in charge of handling requests, monitoring, scheduling, and also hosting a web UI. Each worker node runs a worker module, which manages virtual machines and reports their status to master. When a new VM boots, a pre-installed agent inside the VM fetches necessary information from outside and configures the new VM.

Nova strives to be mighty yet user-friendly. No client software is required since all operations can be done within a modern browser. Only a few clicks are required before a virtual cluster is up and ready to use.

Prerequisite

Storage: NFS / FTP;

Virtualization: LXC / QEMU-KVM.

Development

Current stable release is on branch master.

Branch sched-dev is the cutting edge branch, which is under active development.

Deployment

Test setup

Nova is tested on cutting edge hardwares and softwares.

Tianyu’s experiment setup (as of April 2016):

Workstation:

Dell Optiplex 7040 Micro  
  |_ Core i5 6500T  
  |_ 4GB DDR4 SDRAM  
  |_ Samsung 850 series flash drive  
  |_ Fedora Workstation 23 x86_64 (Linux 4.4.6)  
  |_ Oracle Java SE 1.7.0_79  

Server rack:

Four worker nodes and a master node with the same configuration:

Dell PowerEdge R720  
  |_ Dual Xeon E5-2640 v2  
  |_ 32GB DDR3 ECC SDRAM  
  |_ CentOS 7.2 x86_64 (Linux 3.10.0)  
  |_ Oracle Java SE 1.7.0_79  
  |_ Libvirt 1.2.17  

Installation

TBD

Q & A

TBA

Screenshot

Developers & maintainers

Active contributors & maintainers

Tianyu Chen, lead developer, current maintainer
Dongbiao He, current developer and maintainer

Previous contributors

Santa Zhang, [email protected], lead developer, main contributor
HUANG Gang, [email protected], contributor
ZHAO Xun, [email protected], contributor
HOU Qinghua, [email protected], contributor
GAO Tao, [email protected], contributor
Feng Lin, [email protected], contributor
XIN Jun, lead developer, contributor

License

TBA