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11.4 NEBULA
Nebula is a federal cloud computing service served by NASA. Nebula is
listed as an open-source project. However, unlike general open-source
cloud solutions, Nebula had a dedicated mission to support NASA scien-
tic tasks with a private cloud. The beta version of Nebula was released in
September 2010.
11.4.1 Architecture
Figure 11.10 presents the architectural components of the Nebula
platform. IaaS provided by Nebula enables cloud customers to launch
computing resources in the form of fully functional, network-connected
virtual machines on demand. A unique requirement for cloud ...