NASA Open Source Software

NASA conducts research and development in software and software technology as an essential response to the needs of NASA missions. Under the NASA Software Release policy, NASA has several options for the release of NASA developed software technologies. These options now include Open Source software release. This option is under the NASA Open Source Agreement "NOSA".

The motivations for NASA to distribute software codes Open Source are:

To increase NASA software quality via community peer review
To accelerate software development via community contributions
To maximize the awareness and impact of NASA research
To increase dissemination of NASA software in support of NASA's education mission

Projects

BigView

BigView allows for interactive panning and zooming of images of arbitrary size on desktop PCs running linux. Additionally, it can work in a multi-screen environment where multiple PCs cooperate to ...
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CODE

CODE is a software framework for control and observation in distributed environments. The basic functionality of the framework allows a user to observe a distributed set of resources, services, and ...
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ECHO

The concept of ECHO has been many years in the making. The initial charter and Plan development began in June of 1998 and was called the Independent Information Management System ...
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Growler

Growler is a C++-based distributed object and event architecture. It is written in C++, and supports serialization of C++ objects as part of its Remote Method Invocation, Event Channels, and ...
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IND: Creation and Manipulation of Decision Trees from Data

IND is applicable to most data sets consisting of independent instances, each described by a fixed length vector of attribute values. An attribute value may be a number, one of ...
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IPG Execution Service

The Execution Service allows users to submit, monitor, and cancel complex jobs. Each job consists of a set of tasks that perform actions such as executing applications and managing data. ...
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JavaGenes

JavaGenes is a fairly general purpose evolutionary software system written in Java. It implements several versions of the genetic algorithm, simulated annealing, stochastic hill climbing and other search techniques. JavaGenes ...
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Livingstone2

Livingstone2 is a reusable artificial intelligence (AI) software system designed to assist spacecraft, life support systems, chemical plants or other complex systems in operating robustly with minimal human supervision, even ...
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Mesh

Mesh is a secure, lightweight grid middleware that is based on the addition of a single sign-on capability to the built-in public key authentication mechanism of SSH using system call ...
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Mission Simulation ToolKit

The Mission Simulation Toolkit (MST) is a flexible software system for autonomy research. The MST was developed as part of the Mission Simulation Facility (MSF) project, which was started in ...
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NodeMon

NodeMon is a resource utilization monitor tailored to the Altix architecture, but is applicable to any Linux system or cluster. It allows distributed resource monitoring via the Growler software infrastructure. ...
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Pour

Pour is a framework for Periodic, On-Demand, and User-Specified Information Reconciliation that accepts periodic information updates, collects information on-demand as needed, and accepts user-specified information while presenting a single unified ...
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ROBUS-2

The ROBUS-2 Protocol Processor (RPP) is a custom-designed hardware component implementing the functionality of the ROBUS-2 fault-tolerant communication system. The Reliable Optical Bus (ROBUS) is the core communication system of ...
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SLAB Spatial Audio Renderer

SLAB is a software-based, real-time virtual acoustic environment rendering system being developed as a tool for the study of spatial hearing. SLAB is designed to work in the personal computer ...
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Surfer

Surfer is an extensible framework designed to select and rank grid resources where a resource is defined to be anything that may need selecting such as compute resources, storage resources, ...
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Swim

Swim is a Software Information Metacatalog that gathers detailed information about the software components and packages installed on each grid resource. Information is currently gathered for Executable and Linking Format ...
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Vision Workbench

The NASA Vision Workbench (VW) is a modular, extensible, cross-platform computer vision software framework written in C++. It was designed to support a variety of space exploration tasks, including automated ...
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World Wind

World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich ...
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