Nebula (computing platform)

Not to be confused with OpenNebula.

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]

NASA Nebula

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

Nebula Team 2010

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

• Eucalyptus (computing)
• Ganeti