The Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition beta includes Eucalyptus, an open source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters, such as Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). Eucalyptus is provided as a technology preview to allow users “to experiment with cloud computing”.

EUCALYPTUS — Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems — is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing Elastic/Utility/Cloud computing using computing clusters and/or workstation farms. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is interface-compatible with Amazon.com’s EC2 (arguably the most commercially successful Cloud computing service), but the infrastructure is designed to be modified and extended so that multiple client-side interfaces can be supported. In addition, EUCALYPTUS is implemented using commonly-available Linux tools and basic web service technology making it easy to install and maintain. For more information click here.

Get the User Guide from this link http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/EucalyptusUserGuide_v1.4