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HPE supercomputer is still crunching numbers in space after 340 days
HPE's mini supercomputer launched into space last year has survived the harsh conditions of zero gravity and radiation for almost a year. The Spaceborne Computer isn't the greatest supercomputer and has a performance of one teraflop, runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is built out of two HPE Apollo Intel x86 servers with a 56Gbps interconnect.
NASA wanted to see if a computer would last for a year - roughly the time it takes to reach Mars - inside the International Space Station (ISS). So, HPE offered to tuck its Spaceborne Computer aboard SpaceX's CRS-12 rocket and send it into the abyss. "It has now been in space for 340 days", said Mark Fernandez, America's HPC technology officer at HPE and co-principal of the experiment, during a panel talk at the ISS Research & Development Conference on Wednesday in San Francisco.
[...] The machine hasn't been radiation hardened, and relies on a few software tricks to stop it from corrupting, something Fernandez calls "autonomous self-care". Continuous health checks helps keep the computer in check, and when it detects any potential hardware failures, it runs at a slower pace or enters "idle mode", where it powers down.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 28 2018, @12:11AM (1 child)
Engineers have the technical skills to build such a thing.
Managers have the leadership skills to lay off the engineers while avoiding lawsuits and showing net profit.
Executives have the organizational skills to make the engineers subordinate to the MBA.
Congress has the fiduciary skills to spend the public purse to fund the whole shebang.
Each level gets paid what the level above them thinks they are worth.
Thank goodness for "classified info"... the taxpayer would be furious if it were out in the open how many millions of dollars we spend to buy fiascos.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 28 2018, @03:56AM
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