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How do you put a supercomputer on the moon?
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How do you put a supercomputer on the moon?

Technology Now

December 18, 202527m 26s

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Show Notes

What is Spaceborne Lunar? This week, Technology Now explore how, and why, you would put a supercomputer on the moon. We ask why anyone would want to put a supercomputer on the moon, we discover how one would go about doing such a thing, and we explore the benefits that this sort of extreme edge computing could bring. Norm Follett, Senior Director, HPE Global Technical Marketing, Space Technologies & Solutions, tells us more.

This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. This episode is available in both video and audio formats.

About Norm: https://www.linkedin.com/in/normfollett/

Sources:
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/accelerating-space-exploration-with-the-spaceborne-computer.html
https://spectrum.ieee.org/software-as-hardware-apollos-rope-memory

https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/the-first-computers-on-the-moon/

https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/what-tech-would-the-apollo-11-mission-have-today

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20230516-apollo-how-moon-missions-changed-the-modern-world

Averill C., 2022, a Brief Analysis of the Apollo Guidance Computer, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2201.08230

Topics

SpacesupercomputersupercomputingISSspaceborne computerspacebornelunarthe moonmarsNorm Folletttech historyTechhistoryhistory of techinnovationcomputehistory of HPEHPEHewlett Packard Enterprisecollaborationmaths