Nebula is a federal cloud computing platform that originated at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California. Nebula hosted many advanced research projects. One application Open Sourced by NASA and developed by the Nebula project, 'nova' became one of the two founding projects of the OpenStack project.
History
The Ames Internet Exchange (AIX), 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. The AIX provides connectivity to the Nebula Cloud, enabling 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections to NISN.
The Nebula-Project uses a variety of free and open-source software.
See also
External links
- Official website [dead link]
- Interview with Chris C. Kemp about NASA Nebula on Federal News Radio
- Chris C. Kemp participation in Meritalk/AFFIRM Luncheon CIO/CFO Panel: The New IT Economics May 21, 2009
References
"Web Solutions Inspire Cloud Computing Software | NASA Spinoff". spinoff.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-01. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2012/it_2.html ↩
"OpenStack Cloud Computing Platform - NASA". Retrieved 2024-02-01. https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/openstack-cloud-computing-platform/ ↩
"Nebula to Democratize Web-scale Cloud Computing". www.businesswire.com. 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2024-02-01. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110727006429/en/Nebula-to-Democratize-Web-scale-Cloud-Computing ↩