The Grid Computing Competence Center (GC3) is pleased to announce release 1.0.0 of Elasticluster. Do you need... * an Hadoop cluster with preconfigured HDFS ? * a ready-to-go HPC cluster based on different flavours of workload manager like SLURM, SGE, PBS ? * test distributed filesystems like chep, gluster or pvfs ? Elasticluster is a Python tool to automate the creation, configuration and management of clusters of virtual machines hosted on a cloud. It can provision clusters on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 and compatible ones, like OpenStack. A video demoes the basic features of Elasticluster setting up a SLURM compute cluster: http://youtu.be/cR3C7XCSMmA If you are interested, please visit http://gc3-uzh-ch.github.io/elasticluster/ or get in touch with us at elasticluster at googlegroups.com The Grid Computing Competence Center -- antonio.s.messina at gmail.com antonio.messina at uzh.ch +41 (0)44 635 42 22 GC3: Grid Computing Competence Center http://www.gc3.uzh.ch/ University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190 CH-8057 Zurich Switzerland