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Abandoned NASA Spinoff Continues To Deliver

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
May 14, 2013
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150,000 cloud virtual machines will help solve mysteries of the Universe, Ars Technica
“OpenStack pools compute, storage, and networking equipment together, allowing all of a data center’s resources to be managed and provisioned from a single point. Scientists will be able to request whatever amount of CPU, memory, and storage space they need. They will also be able to get a virtual machine with the requested amounts within 15 minutes. CERN runs OpenStack on top of Scientific Linux and uses it in combination with Puppet IT automation software.”
NASA CIO Dumps NASA-Developed Open Stack
“Ray O’Brien, acting CIO at NASA Ames, when asked May 30 by InformationWeek about NASA’s participation, used diplomatic language to say that NASA still endorsed the project, was proud of its founding role, and might be a user of OpenStack components in the future. “It is very possible that NASA could leverage OpenStack as a customer in the future,” he wrote in his email response. …”

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One response to “Abandoned NASA Spinoff Continues To Deliver”

  1. intdydx says:
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    Some perspective from the OpenStack developer

    http://www.datamation.com/c