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NASA's Nebula container arrives at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Nebula began as an R&D effort into platforms-as-a-service and has expanded into software- and infrastructure-as-a-service.

NASA's Nebula container arrives at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Nebula began as an R&D effort into platforms-as-a-service and has expanded into software- and infrastructure-as-a-service.  NASA is testing the use of shipping containers as a way to make Nebula more scalable and portable.  Federal CIO Vivek Kundra and NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver tour the Nebula container in September 2009 at the announcement of the U.S. government's cloud computing initiative.   NASA Ames CIO Chris Kemp, pictured here in Ames' security operations center, is the Nebula cloud project leader.  A systems administrator inspects a rack of servers inside the container. Among other applications, Nebula supports scientific R&D via fast, high-performance computing.  Nebula's data center in a box works with computing clusters and infrastructure in other NASA data centers and locations.  NASA plans to release the Nebula software stack as open source and could potentially make Nebula itself available to other government agencies. 

Nebula Container Arrives

NASA's Nebula container arrives at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Nebula began as an R&D effort into platforms-as-a-service and has expanded into software- and infrastructure-as-a-service.