Shared Services Available on the Science Cloud
The Science Cloud will provide a suite of essential shared services designed to streamline collaboration and project management across the platform. These services are centrally managed and available to all participating projects, removing the need for individual teams to deploy or maintain their own instances.
Included services:
- GitLab – Version control and code repository management.
- Mattermost – A communication and notification platform for operational updates.
- Jira – Project tracking, task management, and issue reporting.
- Confluence – An organized workspace for documentation and knowledge sharing.
By integrating these tools directly into the Science Cloud infrastructure, projects can immediately access reliable, enterprise‑supported collaboration tools without the overhead of standalone setup or maintenance.
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The Research Platform
The Research Platform is a sophisticated, fully open-source, multi-tenant cloud environment specifically designed to support scientific workloads for NASA civil servants, contractors, and NASA-funded researchers, including ROSES grant recipients. Please note that the platform is currently in development and is in testing. To gain access and help evaluate the platform, please contact the Science Cloud Research and Innovation Lead, Ramon Ramirez-Linan, at ramon.e.ramirez-linan@nasasupport team at support@sciencecloud.nasa.gov. Built on a familiar JupyterLab foundation, it comes enhanced with curated tools for AI-assisted coding (Notebook Intelligence), parallel computing (Dask), and natural language dataset discovery (BExplorer).
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Science and Technology Authorization Realm
The Science and Technology Authorization Realm (STAR) is
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a centralized identity-management and authorization platform supporting NASA research ecosystems. STAR uses
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an isolated, per-tenant model to ensure security and privacy. Each onboarded application receives a dedicated
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environment, with user groups and roles configured
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according to the tenant's audience and access requirements. STAR is highly customizable for
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administrators and integrates seamlessly with major external identity providers
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, including InCommon, ORCID, and Login.gov
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The infrastructure runs on
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a highly available cloud architecture scaled across multiple availability zones to ensure STAR stays
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reliable to support the research community, NASA internal users, federated partners, and a wide range of applications
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Shared Services Available on the Science Cloud
The Science Cloud will provide a suite of essential shared services designed to streamline collaboration and project management across the platform. These services are centrally managed and available to all participating projects, removing the need for individual teams to deploy or maintain their own instances.
Included services:
- GitLab – Version control and code repository management.
- Mattermost – A communication and notification platform for operational updates.
- Jira – Project tracking, task management, and issue reporting.
- Confluence – An organized workspace for documentation and knowledge sharing.
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Support for Additional Low-Level Cloud Service Providers
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