The fastest supercomputer on Earth is El Capitan, located in the United States. With technological barriers, America's supremacy in the world of supercomputers is difficult for other countries to overtake. Therefore, China is thinking outside the box and has begun building the world's first space-based supercomputer. So, what should you know about it?
For your information, the first 12 satellites of the Star Compute program were successfully launched by ADA Space. The program, which also involves Zhijiang Laboratory and Neijang High-Tech Zone, aims to deploy 2,800 satellites with artificial intelligence (AI) processing capabilities, dubbed the Three-Body Computing Constellation. When fully operational, it will be a space supercomputer network capable of processing 1,000 Maps of Operations per Second (MOPS).
Additionally, each satellite also has an AI model with 8 billion parameters, with a 100 Gbps connection using lasers. Through this connection, 30TB of storage is shared by the first 12 satellites to perform data processing in space. With a supercomputer in space, the data collected will be processed on its own without having to be sent to Earth first. Among the existing problems is that the data collected cannot be sent to Earth quickly due to various weather factors.
This also reduces the need for data centres on Earth, as well as reducing energy consumption because the satellites only require solar power. The heat generated to process data is also dissipated into space instead of the Earth's atmosphere.
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