The ISS Has a Supercomputer! Never Mind the Fried Disks
The ISS Has a Supercomputer! Never Mind the Fried Disks
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 2, 20184m 30s
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Show Notes
One year ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise sent an off-the-shelf supercomputer up to the International Space Station, to see if its mass-produced hardware could survive, basically unmodified, in the harsh environment of space. Now NASA and the computer company are declaring the experiment a success—even though nearly half of its hard disks failed after getting fried by solar radiation.
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