On 15/08/17 03:12, Jeffrey Layton wrote: > A friend of mine, Mark Fernandez, is the lead engineer on this > project. He works for SGI (now HPE). They are putting two servers > onto the ISS and are going to be running tests for a while. I don't > know too many details except this.
Ars Technica had more on this last weekend, which I tweeted. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/spacex-is-launching-a-supercomputer-to-the-international-space-station/ Two 1TF systems, one to go to the ISS and one to remain on the ground as a control system, both running the same code. # For the year-long experiment, astronauts will install the computer # inside a rack in the Destiny module of the space station. It is # about the size of two pizza boxes stuck together. And while the # device is not exactly a state-of-the-art supercomputer—it has a # computing speed of about 1 teraflop—it is the most powerful computer # sent into space. Unlike most computers, it has not been hardened for # the radiation environment aboard the space station. The goal is to # better understand how the space environment will degrade the # performance of an off-the-shelf computer. # # During the next year, the spaceborne computer will continuously run # through a set of computing benchmarks to determine its performance # over time. Meanwhile, on the ground, an identical copy of the # computer will run in a lab as a control. No details on the actual systems there though. cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
