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Lunar supercomputer?, Could a lunar supercomputer alleviate the DSN data overload?
Phil Naranjo
post Oct 10 2012, 09:48 PM
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A USC grad student is proposing that we build a supercomputer at one of the lunar poles:

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/...rcomputer-moon/

The idea is to alleviate data overload issues with NASA Deep Space Network. It's a creative idea, although his proposed time-frame is too ambitious. Also, wouldn't it be cheaper to orbit an array of spaceborne antennas (at a Lagrange point) to act as a front-end for the DSN?



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Phil Stooke
post Oct 11 2012, 12:56 AM
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A solution looking for a problem - but he didn't pick a very realistic problem. A giant server farm for massive longterm data archiving maybe... others have suggested that. Anyway, not in the cards for a very long time.

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- Phil Naranjo   Lunar supercomputer?   Oct 10 2012, 09:48 PM
- - djellison   It's crazy. Utterly crazy. The infrastructur...   Oct 11 2012, 12:15 AM
- - Phil Stooke   A solution looking for a problem - but he didn...   Oct 11 2012, 12:56 AM
- - Astro0   As someone who has an intimate knowledge of the DS...   Oct 11 2012, 06:26 AM

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