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posted by mrpg on Tuesday November 13 2018, @11:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the hack-it-it's-127.0.0.127 dept.

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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


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @12:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @12:07AM (#761515)

    I even link it up for you if unfamiliar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar! [wikipedia.org]