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NASA Plans App Store For Scientists

Posted by samzenpus on from the top-rated-science-section dept.

gManZboy writes "The space agency is widely known as a cloud computing success story in the government for its Nebula cloud computing platform. Now NASA will develop an app store for its scientists. The NASA CIO says it's about getting the science job done."

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  1. Link inside the article by Synerg1y · · Score: 2

    Has some interesting information

    http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/cloud-saas/231901731?itc=edit_in_body_cross

    Turns out Nasa isn't the only one looking to go to cloud computing: main implication: all systems are penetrable and now all the data will be in one place rather than scattered across agencies. They'll prolly invent cyber m16s soon though to guard it and stuff, so it's ok right?

  2. Cake will be served? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The NASA CIO says it's about getting the science job done

    1. Re:Cake will be served? by squidflakes · · Score: 2

      Only for the people who are still alive.

  3. Apple supports apps stores for organization by perpenso · · Score: 2

    About to be sued by Apple in 5, 4, 3...

    Actually, Apple allows enterprise developers to offer internal app stores for their users. Given that the summary says "app store for its scientists" there may be no conflict here. NASA would only be prohibited from offering an iOS App Store to the public in general. Of course why would they bother with an app store for the public when they could simply have their free iOS apps appear on the Apple App Store at no cost to NASA?

    1. Re:Apple supports apps stores for organization by Fnord666 · · Score: 2

      Of course why would they bother with an app store for the public when they could simply have their free iOS apps appear on the Apple App Store at no cost to NASA?

      Because what can and can't be made available then becomes subject to the whims of Apple?

      --
      'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
  4. Placement fail by Wolfling1 · · Score: 2

    After the previous thread listed on the homepage, it is a courageous Slashdot that uses the term 'app store' for anything not owned by Apple.

  5. Re:The first App! by robot256 · · Score: 2

    NASA's first app in the store will be an imperial to metric conversion tool.

    NO! It will be a metric to imperial conversion tool.

    ^^^ This. The scientists all work in metric, it is just the engineers that do half and half.

  6. Fingers Crossed by stms · · Score: 2

    I hope they have a fart app.

  7. Re:Scientic Linux by SteveFoerster · · Score: 2

    From the Scientific Linux main page:

    SL is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters.

    The base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled from source.

    Our main goal for the base distribution is to have everything compatible with Enterprise, with only a few minor additions or changes. Examples of items that were added are Alpine, and OpenAFS.

    Our secondary goal is to allow easy customization for a site, without disturbing the Scientific Linux base. The various labs are able to add their own modifications to their own site areas. By the magic of scripts, and the anaconda installer, each site is to be able to create their own distributions with minimal effort. Or, if a user wishes, they can simply install the base SL release.

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