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From: Jason H <jason_hindle@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer"
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 19:06:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On 03/06/2025 03:20, c186282 wrote:
>https://greekreporter.com/2025/06/03/china-world-first-supercomputer-space/
>
>China has begun building what could become the world’s
>first supercomputer in space. On May 14, a Long March 2D
>rocket launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center,
>carrying 12 advanced satellites into orbit.
>
>This marks the first phase of a larger effort to deploy
>a space-based computing system capable of processing
>massive amounts of data without relying on Earth-based
>infrastructure. Led by ADA Space and Zhejiang Lab, the
>project aims to build a 2,800-satellite network known
>as the Three-Body Computing Constellation.
>
>Designed to perform high-speed data processing directly
>in orbit, the constellation represents a major shift in
>how artificial intelligence may be deployed beyond
>Earth—and signals China’s growing lead in the race
>to bring supercomputing power to space.
>
>. . .
>
>   This is kind of strange ...
>
>   Not entirely sure of the POINT in building anything
>   quite like this in orbit.
>
>   SOUNDS like they're implementing a distributed computing
>   setup, with each sat as a 'motherbox' of a sort ... and
>   the overall OS will be able to use on or many to do a
>   given task. This kind of cluster computing is perfectly
>   common on the ground (think Google runs on ONE box ?)
>   but in SPACE, with the inherent delays between the
>   nodes, VERY weird.
>
>   'AI' ... maybe some kind of "global mind" is imagined ?
>
>   'Security' ... it WOULD be hard to take out a LOT of
>   these things in orbit. Take out a few, the system
>   just runs a little slower, but still runs.
>
>   China sometimes "thinks differently". Anybody got a
>   clue WHY they'd want to invest so much in this ???
>   It is beyond 'StarLink' in potential, yet does not
>   seem to be a simple internet system like StarLink.
>
>   Hmm ... does it run on Plan-9 ? That was meant for
>   this sort of computing long back - and it's free,
>   if you wanna deal with its oddness. RHEL is also
>   commonly used for these sorts of clusters.


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