Ex-NASA CTO on cloud computing, zero-gravity and Glass-like tech in 2006
September 1, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
No offense to the others — they’ve been great — but this week’s Structure Show podcast might be favorite one yet. Barb Darrow and I spoke with computer wunderkind Chris Kemp, who’s currently co-founder and CEO of cloud computing startup Nebula, about his time as CIO and CTO at NASA, and the crazy things he saw and did there. Oh, and he has some thoughts on OpenStack — which his team at NASA helped create — as well. Here are some highlights. But if you’re into cloud computing or even space exploration, you really should listen to the whole thing. Seriously.
On the complexity of walking into NASA, as a twenty-something, having worked primarily with normal IT systems: “Literally every technology that has ever been sold has been bought by NASA, and NASA has invented a lot of technology that has never been sold. So it’s really difficult to communicate just how diverse and federated and interesting the infrastructure is at NASA.”…
On the one hand, Kemp noted, there were massive high-performance computing systems. On the other, well, ”I was seeing technology like Google Glass back in 2006. … It’s a very interesting place.”…
Read more from the source @ http://gigaom.com/2013/08/31/ex-nasa-cto-on-using-cloud-computing-to-discover-galaxies-and-seeing-glass-like-tech-in-2006/