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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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