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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aeolus \Aeolus\, AEolus \[AE]"o*lus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Gr. & Rom. Myth.) The god of the winds, in ancient mythology.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see Aeolian.
Wiktionary
n. (context Greek god English) The name of a number of characters in Greek mythology, including the founder of the Aeolian race, and a god with power over wind.
Wikipedia
Aeolus (; , Aiolos , Modern Greek: ), a name shared by three mythical characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which. Diodorus Siculus made an attempt to define each of these three (although it is clear that he also became muddled), and his opinion is followed here. Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey and the Aeneid as the Keeper of the Winds. All three men named Aeolus appear to be connected genealogically, although the precise relationship, especially regarding the second and third Aeolus, is often ambiguous.
Aeolus is an open-source cloud virtual machine management software. It can run virtual machines on several clouds, both private ( Eucalyptus, RHEV, VMware vSphere, etc.) and public ( Amazon EC2, Rackspace, etc.). Aeolus is written in Ruby and works on Linux operating system. Development of Aeolus is sponsored by Red Hat. It leverages Deltacloud to abstract calls to cloud APIs.
Aeolus consists of four tools:
- Aeolus Conductor - manages users' access to and use of cloud resources and controls control users' instances in clouds.
- Aeolus Composer - builds cloud-specific images from generic templates.
- Aeolus Orchestrator - manages clumps of instances in an organized way.
- Aeolus HA Manager - makes instances or clumps of instances in the cloud highly available.
Aeolus is the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.
Aeolus may also refer to:
Places:
- Mount Aeolus (Alberta)
- Mount Aeolus (Antarctica), Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Mount Aeolus (Vermont)
- Aeolus Cave, Vermont
- Aeolus Ridge, Alexander Island, Antarctica
Ships:
- HMS Aeolus, various ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Aeolus, ships of the United States Navy
- Aeolus (1850), a wooden ketch built in New South Wales
Other uses:
- ADM-Aeolus, a European Space Agency satellite due to launch in 2017
- Aeolus (software), an open-source cloud virtual machine management software
- Aeolus Railroad Car, an early 19th-century experiment
- Aeolus, a boss character from the 2007 game Mega Man ZX Advent
The Aeolus was manufactured in England between 1903 and 1905, and featured a 492cc single-cylinder engine with shaft drive to the rear wheel. Production was on a limited scale.
The Aeolus was manufactured between 1914 and 1916 with a 269cc two-stroke engine. Bowns Limited, the company behind the Aeolus, built lightweight machines under their own name after 1945.
Aeolus is a free software pipe organ emulator. Instead of using samples, Aeolus generates its sound using additive synthesis. In his review of Aeolus in Linux Journal in March 2008, Dave Philips had high praises for Aeolus:
In ancient Greek mythology Aeolus was the god of the winds. Aeolus is thus a perfect name for Fons's flagship organ synthesizer. Indeed, to many listeners Aeolus is the best-sounding organ synthesizer available for any platform. A bold statement, to be sure, but in this writer's opinion Aeolus definitely lives up to and even surpasses its hype.
Using a mathematical model it simulates the natural sound of a pipe organ. It is released under the GPL as free software and runs under Linux. Aeolus uses the free software JACK sound server for sound output.
Aeolus requires fewer system resources than sampling and runs well on a 1 GHz processor with 256 MByte RAM.
Usage examples of "aeolus".
Thou Aeolus, that is so black, And out thine other trumpet take, That highte Laud, and blow it so That through the world their fame may go, Easily and not too fast, That it be knowen at the last.
Chief Kurtz ended with a sigh of relief that Aeolus might have envied.
Minyas starting thence, Minyas son of Aeolus, built long ago the city of Orchomenus that borders on the Cadmeians.
He had no servant, nor wanted one, so he brushed down Aeolus with handfuls of straw while Sharpe fetched a pail of water from the river.
McCandless, his nerves strung by the disaster he feared was imminent, galloped Aeolus a few yards westwards as if wanting to find an explanation for the two gunshots, but then he thought better of it and turned his horse back to the road.
He should sell Aeolus, repay Sharpe, take his pension, and board a ship.
This Aeolus anon upstart, And with his blacke clarioun He gan to blazen out a soun' As loud as bellows wind in hell.
Another tradition, which has its source in the Odyssey, places the abode of the winds in the Aeolian Islands, where they were kept under the guardianship of Aeolus.