Cloud Computing in NASA Missions Dan Whorton CTO, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies June 25, 2010 All material in RED will be updated

Welcome to the NASA IT Summit  Who am I?  Why are we here?  Building innovation at NASA  How do we get from here to there Comments and questions are welcome! Let’s learn together Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —2— June 15, 2010

Stellar IT Supporting NASA Missions NASA IT Mission  The mission of the NASA IT organization is to increase the productivity of scientists, engineers, and mission support personnel by responsively and efficiently delivering reliable, innovative and secure IT services. Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —3— June 15, /6/2015 Linda Cureton presentation at AMES

NASA Mission To improve life here, To extend life to there, To find life beyond. Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —4— March 5, 2010 NASA Vision To understand and protect our home planet, To explore the Universe and search for life, and To inspire the next generation of explorers... as only NASA can.

What is NASA IT? Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —5— June 15, 2010 Users 18,000 Employees 44,000 Contractors Devices and Data Centers 80,000 Desktops/Laptops 15,000 servers in 75 data centers Networks 3 Wide Area Networks Center-specific LANs 200 connections to universities and partners Websites 8,000 websites 2,000 public facing sites Systems/Applications 4,500 Applications NASA IT Workforce 3,700 IT FTE 700 government employees, 3,000 contractors IT Spending $1.8 B annually 10/6/2015 Linda Cureton presentation at AMES

What is a cloud ? Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —6— June 15, 2010

How NIST defines a cloud ( V15)  A cloud has these “essential properties ” »On-Demand Self-Service »Broad Network Access »Resource Pooling »Rapid Elasticity »Measured Service Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —7— June 15, 2010

It is cool, but what does it do? Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —8— June 15, 2010

NIST – Cloud Service Models  Software as a Service »Applications running in the cloud available through a thin-client like a browser  Platform as a Service »User-created or acquired applications, user manages the application, but not the OS, Storage or other infrastructure  Infrastructure as a Service »User is able to provision processing, storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources where the consumer is able to deploy and run arbitrary software Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —9— June 15, 2010

What cloud computing is not  Super Computer access on existing clusters  Grid »( could evolve into a cloud service type ?) Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —10— March 5, 2010

Work in progress at NASA (that I know about)  Nebula  IaaS at GSFC  VM project in Engineering  EOS  GMSEC Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —11— June 15, 2010

Science Data Availability  Huge stores of the Earth Science data is being made available to the general public. I consider this is an early SaaS example. Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —12— March 5, 2010 Provided by USGS, and NASA through the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center

Flight Mission Planning & Operations  PaaS VM Technologies are being tested and deployed in very controlled pilots. The security concerns have limited the adoption of User Provisioning. »GSFC ESMO – Mission planning and instrument command generation. Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —13— March 5, 2010

Science Data Processing  Prototype testing of migration of Earth Science Applications »ICESaT SIPS – SaaS for other mission data sets, because the application is designed to be easily configurable to accept format and algorithm changes »DESDynI – Looking for design requirements that will make smart use of cloud Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —14— March 5, 2010

GMSEC  Studies implementing existing GMSEC Architecture, tools and components in a private cloud environment are on-going Planning a proof-of-concept DaaS from short duration mission Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —15— March 5, 2010

Early issues  Security – not well understood within the cloud environments  Software designed for Grid or large cluster is not optimized for cloud IaaS or PaaS  Size of data sets – »A new service model Data-Set as a Service (DaaS) may emerge  Test what you fly & Fly what you test Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —16— March 5, 2010

NASA Mission IT Areas considered  Computational Research  Earth/Space Science Research  System Engineering/Development  Flight Mission Planning & Operations  Education and Outreach Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —17— March 5, 2010

Computational Research  Predicted benefits »Reduced costs through better utilization »Improved access to data »Improved Security for all cloud users  Areas with probable high ROI from cloud »SaaS – transition current modeling and HPC applications into SaaS model »Security – management of security within cloud environment –Virtual Private Cloud for modeling and HPC applications Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —18— March 5, 2010

Earth/Space Science Research  Predicted benefits »Reduced costs through better utilization »Improved access to data »Standardization of system protocols and tools  Areas with probable high ROI from cloud »DaaS, - Shared data infrastructure for multiple missions »IaaS – Mission support servers »SaaS, GMSEC »PaaS – Development infrastructure in the cloud, SIPS, Ground System, Flight, Instrument Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —19— March 5, 2010

System Engineering/Development  Predicted benefits »Reduced costs »Improved security, CM, maintainability »Standardization data formats and protocols  Areas with probable high ROI from cloud »DaaS »IaaS, SaaS, »Integration and Test capabilities »Life Cycle Support »COOP/DR Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —20— March 5, 2010

Flight Mission Planning & Operations  Predicted benefits »Reduced costs »Improved security, CM, maintainability »Standardization data formats and protocols  Areas with probable high ROI from cloud »IaaS, Mission Specific command generation systems, simulators, custom tools »SaaS Standard Mission Service – Flight Dynamics, link scheduling Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —21— March 5, 2010

Education and Outreach  Predicted benefits »Improved service »Improved security »Taxpayer involvement in Science  Areas with probable high ROI from cloud »DaaS »SaaS Offer public access to much more data, and tools Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —22— March 5, 2010

Moving Forward  For many Flight Mission Support activities, the security must be addressed »Private Cloud – FIPS -199 High is a possible solution  More discussion, research and prototyping needed »Timing seems right for a collaborative working group of NASA stakeholders Cloud Computing in NASA Missions —23— March 5, 2010