Nebula (computing platform)
Federal cloud computing platform
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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]
| NASA Nebula | |
|---|---|
| |
| Developer | NASA |
| Operating system | Any (web-based application) |
| Type | Web development |
| Website | nebula |
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.