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'''Nebula''' is a Federal [[Cloudcloud Computingcomputing]] pilot under development at [[NASA Ames Research Center]] in Silicon Valley, California. The project began in Fall 2007 and operates under the direction of NASA Ames' CIO Chris C. Kemp.<ref name="nebula0">{{cite web

| url = http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090724_6498.php

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The Ames Internet Exchange, which hosts the Nebula Cloud, 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. Nebula also connects to [[CENIC]] and [[Internet2]], atwith [[10GigE]] connections. Nebula is a hybrid cloud that uses open data APIs for interoperability with commercial cloud providers, such as [[Amazon EC2]] and [[Google App Engine]].<ref name="coveranetnebula">{{cite web

| url = http://www.converanet.com/information-technology/nasas-new-cloud-computing-environment

| date = June 15, 2009

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Nebula is an Open Sourceopen-source project and utilizesuses a variety Openof Sourceopen-source Componentscomponents, including Eucalyptus, LUSTRE and [[RabbitMQ]].

==References==