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| Developer(s) | NASA |
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| Operating system | Any (web-based application) |
| Type | Web development |
| Website | nebula |
Nebula is a federal cloud computing platform that originated at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California. [1] 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. [2] [3]
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.
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