And when it comes to space, ISS is a pretty benign environment - shirt sleeves, low radiation, etc. You want hostile, go to Europa - 1 Rad/second kinds of dose plus LOTS of high energy particles from the interaction with Jupiter. That sort of brownish spot on Europa¹s ice? That¹s a radiation burn. https://www.space.com/13624-photos-europa-mysterious-moon-jupiter.html
James Lux, P.E. Task Manager, DHFR Space Testbed Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 161-213 Pasadena CA 91109 +1(818)354-2075 +1(818)395-2714 (cell) On 8/14/17, 6:05 PM, "Beowulf on behalf of Christopher Samuel" <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of sam...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >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-supercompute >r-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 _______________________________________________ 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
