Projects List

The Orca family consists of a number of projects. This page provides a comprehensive list of them. Some of the projects consist of one or more subprojects. Please visit the project's page for information about its subproject.

Many of the project have no or little documentation, but we are working on addressing this problem.

Name Description
Automat Umbrella project for the Autonomic Computing Testbed.
Boot Provides tools to processes Orca container configuration files.
Container Defines the API for managing application containers.
Cluster on Demand Provides a site authority implementation.
Drivers Offers a collection of resource drivers to be used by site authorities.
Log The Log family of projects deals with collecting and analyzing events.
Handlers The Handlers family of projects provides a collection of configuration handlers.
Manage Provides the basic management framework and offers a number of tools to manage machines, storage servers, etc.
Node Agent The Node Agent is a multi-purpose web service.
Node Agent Host The Node Agent Host is a hosting standalone server for the Node Agent service.
Policy Provides a collection of policies for service managers, brokers, and site authorities.
Portal Provides the Orca web portal core and a collection of extensions.
Run Provides a harness for running Orca experiments.
Security A library for performing authentication and authorization.
SHARP Implementation of SHARP tickets and accountability protocols.
Shirako Shirako leasing core.
Tools Offers a collection of build and management tools.
Util A general-purpose library of useful utilities.