For the first time, the United States sent supercomputers to space, and Musk’s spacecraft was responsible for shipping.
Reporter Wang Xinxin comprehensive report
On August 14th, local time, the Spacex company under Musk's company sent a supercomputer to the International Space Station for NASA for the first time.
It is understood that this supercomputer was designed and developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The company stated that this mission is part of a joint experiment they conducted with NASA. The system mounted on this supercomputer will be in orbit for a year to understand whether supercomputers can work long hours in the harsh environment of space.
For space exploration, especially for Mars missions, it requires strong computing power. However, currently, space computing capabilities are extremely limited. Many space research projects are calculated on the ground. For exploration missions near Mars, there may be a delay of up to 40 minutes for one round of communications. In the event of an astronaut unable to solve the problem, such a long delay means a potential danger.
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman also commented on this in her personal Twitter account. She congratulated HP on the cooperation with NASA.
“Mars missions require advanced on-board computing resources that can operate for long periods of time. To meet these needs, we need to improve the capabilities of related technologies in space to better ensure mission success. By launching supercomputers into space, HP companies are This is the first step in this area.†Alan Andreoli, senior vice president and general manager of the HP Enterprise Data Center Infrastructure Group, said in a company blog.
According to him, under normal circumstances, computers that enter space must be physically “reinforced†to withstand harsh space conditions such as radiation, solar flares, subatomic particles, micro-meteoroids, and unstable electricity, but this takes time. , money, and bring extra weight. The supercomputer they send to space is called "Space Computer." It is a water-cooled system based on the Linux operating system. The hardware does not have any adjustments. Instead, it uses a software "hardening" method.
It is understood that this new "reinforcement" approach adopted by Hewlett-Packard will manage computer systems in real time based on current conditions and reduce environmental induced errors. It passed at least 146 safety tests and certification before it finally got approval from NASA to enter space.
In Andre's blog, he also pointed out that this supercomputer experiment will not only demonstrate the technology needed to promote space computing, but also bring about a chain reaction to the improvement of high-performance computers on the earth or other fields.
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