Nebula (computing platform)

Nebula is a Federal Cloud Computing pilot started by NASA in Spring 2008. The Nebula research & development team and primary Nebula facility are located at Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California.

Nebula is a hybrid cloud that uses open data APIs for interoperability with commercial cloud providers, such as Amazon EC2.

Nebula is an Open Source project and was built using all Open Source Components, including Eucalyptus, LUSTRE and RabbitMQ. The Ames Internet Exchange which hosts the Nebula Cloud, was formerly MAE-West, one of the original nodes of the Internet, and is still a major peering location for Tier 1 ISPs, as well as being the home of the "E" root name servers. Nebula also connects to CENIC and Internet2, at 10GigE connections.

Nebula complies with the Federal Information Security Management Act.