[Beowulf] Server Sky - Internet and computation in orbit

[Peter St. John]

I'd love computation on the moon; just as good solar collection as orbit,
but radiation shielding from craters. But what about cooling? The article
sounded a bit glib. I'm thinking, unless there's appreciable available
water, computing in space will be limited to low GHz because heat
dissipation would be limited to IR radiation? There's no coolant in space,
right? How do satellites deal with that?
Peter

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Mark Hahn <hahn at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> > The correct location for the Exascale HPC Datacentre of the future is of
> > course the Moon.
>
> I apologize for a relatively sober response, but whenever I see
> a documentary on geothermal vents in the ocean, I think about
> putting exascale DCs down there ;)
>
> all that nice cold water in close proximity to gigawatts of free hot
> water...
> _______________________________________________
> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing
> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit
> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20130621/57dd8c89/attachment.html>