Cloud infrastructure for home and personal experimentation? [closed]

Solution 1:

Have you considered Eucalyptus? It's free and is pretty simple to set up on a couple boxes you may have. From their site:

EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. EUCALYPTUS is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain.

Solution 2:

Presumably you don't need cloud computing, just cluster computing. Cloud computing involves timesharing a cluster, and these are 100 percent yours! There's projects like Hadoop to build a google mapreduce cluster, but maybe to get started you should check out BashReduce, which mimics Hadoop with much lighter dependencies.