Linux Supercomputer starts running in Space, crosses 1 Teraflop speed
The HPE’ s Spaceborne computer was launched in the space using SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft. This collaboration of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NASA to find out the how the high-performance actually perform in space. This supercomputer is fully installed and running in full capacity in ISS.
This experiment will be carried out for one whole year, which is roughly estimated to be the time taken by the spacecraft to reach Mars. Although the calculations for space research projects are carried out in Earth, the latency is a main issue when it concerns the data being sent from space to Earth and back again.
The supercomputer is built with Apollo 40 server with high speed HPC interconnect running on Linux. It is enclosed inside a water cooled environment and additional software running in the environmental constraints.
The supercomputer itself is a state of the art high performance computer to run at one teraflop. One teraflop is one trillion calculations per second. In other words, it is 30 times faster than a laptop.
HPE’ s America HPC Technology Officer Mark Fernadez says that the engineer is ready to launch the multi-node High-performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark test.
“ Now that all the hardware installations have been successfully completed, it’ s time for me to take over and begin the necessary software downloads and system housekeeping. All goes as planned. The system in space is running identically to its twin on Earth,” Fernandez’ s Captain’ s Log states.
The engineers will study closely about the running processes of the supercomputer and check out the latency and performance of the system.
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