[Beowulf] Supercomputing comes to the Daily Mail

[Lux, Jim (337C)]

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



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On 8/14/17, 6:05 PM, "Beowulf on behalf of Christopher Samuel"
<beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org on behalf of samuel at 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: samuel at unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
>
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