This edition introduces you to a new technology which really facinating – Converting your PC to a super computers. I’m sure that many of you might have tried to figure out a way by which you could increase the performance of your system. A simple Googling will yield you results that tells you to do a system scan for malwares and virus. Some of them will tell you methods like enabling swap (in you are in Linux). But none of these really improvise the actual performance.

Techblog is gonna tell you something really breathtaking and I’m sure that you are gonna miss a heart pulse after reading this. Welcome to the world of Open Source Cloud Computing!

Nereus V is one of the most popular open source solutions that enables you to do parallel computing. You can download the server client from the download page of the project site.

You can download the following files from the site:

• Nereus Server (Jar file)
• Nereus Client (Jar file)
• ‘NereusFrame’ development tool
• Source code

Since the entire solutions is released under GPLv2, you are free to edit and redistribute it! You may also download the Nereus API documents as a single ZIP file from the website (for reference).

As we are meddling with jar files, it is presumed that you have a Java virtual machine running in your system.

Installing and deploying

You can check the version of your Java, by issuing

java -version

For starting the server, you can issue

java -jar Nereus.jar -domain < Nereus Server Domain Name> -port <port number if it is not 80> -nml <default NML file to send clients>

Further you can use Nereus Cloud for managing your clients

<service id=main default=true code=com.nereuscloud.CloudService
archive=”http://www.nereuscloud.net/jars/NereusCloud.jar“>
<query>${queryString}</query>
<account>Your_Nereus_Cloud_Account_Name</account>
</service>

You may also look at the tutorial page to find how to deploy an application in the server. Total CPU Power of the Nereus Cloud as of today is 44929 MFlops!

So now you have 1 billion computers at your dispersal! Happy hacking !!