Lift-off for NASA's Cloud based applications
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The US space agency NASA, has awarded a $600,000 contract to Parabon Computation to create a ‘Modelling and Software as a Service' (M&SaaS) application for scientific research. The contract was awarded as part of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme.
The application will allow NASA scientists to design and run simulations from any web browser, and Parabon is already looking to expand M&SaaS solutions into more sectors.
'M&SaaS has the potential to revolutionise how scientific software is designed, developed, deployed and used. By fully exploiting the service paradigm, Parabon's solution will eliminate many of the obstacles that currently challenge the modelling and simulation community,' said Mike Seablom, who leads the Software Integration & Visualization Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
'The fact that this solution is accessible from the browser means anyone anywhere will be able to help contribute to our understanding of Earth system science.'
'NASA's SBIR program is highly competitive and Parabon is proud to be recognized for this software innovation. We're confident that the capabilities developed under this project will forever transform the way modelling and simulation is practiced,' said Dr. Steven Armentrout, Parabon founder and chief executive officer. 'It's a perfect example of what can be accomplished by combining our extensive grid computing capabilities with recent advances in cloud computing and other online service-oriented technologies.'
News of the M&SaaS project arrived the same day President Obama called for greater private sector cooperation in launching low-orbit manned missions, and halted Constellation, the planned programme announced by his predecessor to return man to the Moon.
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