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Astronauts will soon be able to use a supercomputer to help run science experiments on the International Space Station. The Spaceborne Computer, a joint project between NASA and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, launched to the ISS in 2017. It’s been limited to running diagnostic tests, figuring out how well a computer built for Earth could survive in space.
Now it will be available to process data for space-based experiments, which should save researchers on the ground valuable time. It will also save precious bandwidth in the tightly-controlled stream of data that NASA manages between the ISS and the ground. The exact experiments that the supercomputer will run in the next few months have not yet been disclosed.
Source: A supercomputer on the ISS will soon be open for science experiments
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @10:07PM
You are correct. This is an example of what plagues the ISS, which is that "microgravity is of micro-interest."
Fifteen years later, this is sadly still the case. "Figuring out how well a computer built for Earth can survive in space"???? OMFG!