15986 Supercomputer halfway to Mars (2 photos)

Supercomputer halfway to Mars (2 photos)



Суперкомпьютер на полпути к Марсу (2 фото)

Today it is planned to send to the International space station Spaceborne supercomputer Computer, which was developed by the company Hewlett Packard Enterprise with the support of NASA. Aboard the ISS, he will be tested in space under microgravity. Deliver it to the ISS Dragon spacecraft of SpaceX. The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket will take place from the Kennedy Space center at Cape Canaveral at 19:31 GMT. Video stream will be available on the YouTube channel Corporation SpaceX.

Testing a supercomputer in real conditions can be considered another step towards the realization of a longtime dream of flying to Mars. The minimum distance between the planets when the Earth is exactly between the Sun and Mars, approximately 55,75 million km. The scale of the space is quite small, but in order to overcome this, the signal will take about 20 minutes, and as much again to get the answer.

Add to that a number of factors that can interfere with reliable communications and efficient operation of the computers in the open space, including radiation, solar flares, the impact of subatomic particles and micrometeorites, instability of power supply, the need to ensure uniform cooling and more.

Суперкомпьютер на полпути к Марсу (2 фото)

In high-performance computer class HP Apollo 40 operating system is Linux, open source, supplemented by specially developed software, taking into account environmental constraints and the requirements of reliability calculations in outer space (PC programmed to detect the increase in radiation with the help of advanced software so in the case of danger to regulate the operation of the system as a whole, for example, to reduce the processing speed in order to avoid possible critical damage). The developer has not carried out any drastic hardware modification of the computer, and went the other way – has created a special protective housing with water cooling. All this will allow in the course of the year to find out how commercial supercomputer adapted for continuous operation in the harsh space environment and whether he will cope with their tasks during the flight to Mars.

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Source: theverge.com

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