Nebula is a federal

cloud computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

platform that originated at

NASA Ames Research Center The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laborat ...

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. Nebula hosted many advanced research projects. One application Open Sourced by

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and developed by the Nebula project, 'nova' became one of the two founding projects of the

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project.

History

The Ames Internet Exchange (AIX), was formerly

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, one of the original nodes of the

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, 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

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connections to NISN. The Nebula-Project uses a variety of

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External links

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Interview with Chris C. Kemp about NASA Nebula on Federal News RadioChris C. Kemp participation in Meritalk/AFFIRM Luncheon CIO/CFO Panel: The New IT Economics May 21, 2009
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