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NASA Nebula
Developer(s)NASA
Initial release-
Operating systemAny (Web-based application)
TypeWeb development
Websitehttp://nebula.nasa.gov

Nebula is a Federal Cloud Computing pilot under development at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. The project began in Fall 2007 and operates under the direction of NASA Ames' CIO Chris C. Kemp.[1][2][3]

The Ames Internet Exchange which hosts the Nebula Cloud, was formerly MAE-West, one of the original nodes of the Internet, and is 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 is a hybrid cloud that uses open data APIs for interoperability with commercial cloud providers, such as Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine.[4][5]

Nebula is an Open Source project and utilizes a variety Open Source Components, including Eucalyptus, LUSTRE and RabbitMQ.

References

  1. ^ ""White House Mulls Making NASA a Center for Federal Cloud Computing"". nextgov. July 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
  2. ^ ""NASA Blazing a Trail for Federal Cloud Computing"". Space News. September 21, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
  3. ^ ""NASA Launches Portable Cloud Effort"". InformationWeek. December 17, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
  4. ^ ""NASA's New Cloud-Computing Environment"". Converanet. June 15, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
  5. ^ ""NASA's Nebula: The Cloud in a Container"". Data Center Knowledge. December 2, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
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