10 Open Source Projects Undertaken By NASA!

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is no stranger to open source projects! 

Open Source is not something that is confined to the Red Hats of the world. In fact, NASA, the space research organisation, has come up with a number of projects that it has later made open source. These projects can be really useful for developers and learners alike. Here are 10 of NASA's endeavours.

1. BigView

This project deals with interactive zooming and panning of images on desktop computers of any size and running the Linux platform.

2. CFD Utilities

This is a utility software that comes with about 30 libraries of Fortran 90 along with nearly 100 built in application, 77 subroutines.

3. CODE

This is an open source software framework that is in order to observe distributed environments.

4. E-Standards for Mass Properties Engineering

This is an open source forum that aims to increase interest in Java App Programming for Mass Properties Engineering.

5. ECHO

NASA has worked on this tool for a long time and has finally succeeded in developing what was earlier called the Independent Information Management System(IIMS).

6. Geometry Manipulation Protocol (GMP)

This is another open source library that serializes datatypes between ANSI C and XML data struvtures in order to provide support for CFD applications.

7. Growler

This is an open source C++ based distributed objects, while supporting serialisation of C++ objects.

8. IND

This is an open source system that can work with most of the independent instances that are described using fixed length vector of attribute : values.

9. IPG Execution Service

This is an execution software that allows the users to monitors, cancel and submit their jobs. 

10. JavaGenes

This is an open source software system that has been written in Java and uses a number of genetic algorithms, stochastic hill climbing, simulated annea-healing etc