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Hosting the universe on an open source cloud

, March 26, 2009 @ 8:42 am ET

Earlier this week NASA Ames Research Center announced that it had entered into a “Space Act Agreement” with Microsoft to “jointly… develop the technology and infrastructure necessary to make the most interesting NASA content – including high-resolution scientific images and data from Mars and the moon – explorable on WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft’s online virtual telescope for exploring the universe.”

Which is interesting enough, although nothing to do with this blog. Except that NASA Ames CIO Chris Kemp revealed in a blog post that while Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope will provide the front end the public uses to view the universe, the back-end data (over 100 terabytes) “will be hosted on a new cloud platform built on open source technology that was specifically designed to host vast quantities of scientific data.”

He’s promising more details of that platform in a later post. In the meantime it would appear unfortunate that while the data will be hosted on an open source platform individuals with an open source desktop are not going to be able to view it.

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  1. 451 CAOS Theory » Hosting the universe on an open source cloud | Open Hacking says:
    March 26, 2009 at 10:58 am

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  3. Roy Schestowitz says:
    March 27, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    > He’s promising more details of that platform in a later
    > post. In the meantime it would appear unfortunate that while
    > the data will be hosted on an open source platform individuals
    > with an open source desktop are not going to be able to view it.

    A bit like 451 Group Webcasts? ;-)

  4. IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 27th, 2009 - Part 3 | Boycott Novell says:
    March 28, 2009 at 4:17 am

    [...] “He’s [Microsoft lackey] promising more details of that platform in a later post. In the meantime it would appear unfortunate that while the data will be hosted on an open source platform individuals with an open source desktop are not going to be able to view it.” http://blogs.the451group.com/o… [...]

  5. IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 27th, 2009 - Part 3 | All about MICROSOFT says:
    March 28, 2009 at 5:04 am

    [...] “He’s [Microsoft lackey] promising more details of that platform in a later post. In the meantime it would appear unfortunate that while the data will be hosted on an open source platform individuals with an open source desktop are not going to be able to view it.” http://blogs.the451group.com/o… [...]

  6. Microsoft Uses Pseudo “Open Source” to Fight Against GNU/Linux and the GPL | Boycott Novell says:
    April 3, 2009 at 7:49 am

    [...] is a private entity, but what about NASA? There was a similar deal/arrangement with NASA recently, bragging about an open source platform (not really open), which helps totally exclude GNU/Linux users — or users of any open source platform for that [...]

  7. Microsoft Uses Pseudo “Open Source” to Fight Against GNU/Linux and the GPL | All about MICROSOFT says:
    April 3, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    [...] is a private entity, but what about NASA? There was a similar deal/arrangement with NASA recently, bragging about an open source platform (not really open), which helps totally exclude GNU/Linux users — or users of any open source platform for that [...]

  8. 451 CAOS Theory » 451 CAOS Links 2009.05.27 says:
    May 27, 2009 at 11:38 am

    [...] # InformationWeek reported on NASA’s open source ‘Nebula‘ Compute Cloud (we previously mentioned Nebula, here). [...]

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    May 29, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    [...] La NASA a développé un back-end entièrement open source pour le stockage de données scientifiques (plus de 100 To de données). [...]

  10. Lectures Libres pour le week-end #18 | Test says:
    June 3, 2009 at 10:03 am

    [...] La NASA a développé un back-end entièrement open source pour le stockage de données scientifiques (plus de 100 To de données). [...]