Nebula (computing platform)

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NASA Nebula
Developer NASA
Operating system Any (web-based application)
Type Web development
Website nebula.nasa.gov
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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]

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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

References

  1. ↑ "Web Solutions Inspire Cloud Computing Software | NASA Spinoff". spinoff.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  2. ↑ "OpenStack Cloud Computing Platform - NASA" . Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  3. ↑ "Nebula to Democratize Web-scale Cloud Computing". www.businesswire.com. 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
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