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NASA ditches Itanic for new Xeon-based SGI giant
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| The two organizations announced today that SGI will build a whopping
| 20,480-core system for NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. The giant will
| run on four-core versions of Intel's Xeon chip and should reach peak
| performance of 245 Teraflops, which would make it one of the fastest
| computers in the world. The system, centered around SGI's Altix ICE hardware,
| will also boast - gulp - 20,800 GB of memory and 450TB of storage.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/06/sgi_moon_nasa/
NASA seems to be all about GNU/Linux, at least internally. They ought to avoid
Ballnux though (the case above).
Recent:
Fedora on the Final Frontier
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| There has been a long standing rumor regarding NASA running Fedora which all
| of us in the Fedora community have been always intrigued by. Is it true? What
| are they doing with it there? Why don't they run RHEL. Fortunately enough, a
| couple of weeks ago, I got to experience NASA behind the scenes, first hand,
| and hang out with the coolest members of the Fedora community, and find out
| the answer to these questions and lots more.
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http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2008/02/fedora-on-final-frontier.html
Google's Schmidt: NASA should collaborate with public
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| The US space program should look to collaboration and open systems to drive
| the next wave of human exploration and innovation, Google Chairman and CEO
| Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1865415457&rid=-50
Related:
Penguins in space: NASA picks open source for lunar mission
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| According to Popular Mechanics, Ares project manager Steve Cook noted that
| the specifications for the Ares I design are “open-source and
| non-proprietary” in order that other companies can bid on future contracts.
| The ability to avoid vendor lock-in is a significant argument in favor of the
| use of open source software for long-term projects, particularly for
| government agencies.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/12/13/penguins-in-space-nasa-picks-open-source-for-lunar-mission/
Interview: The driver behind NASA's Mars Rovers
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| It all runs on a collection of high-end Linux boxes -- nice systems, but
| commodity PC hardware. Since 3-D visualisation is a big part of the job, the
| Linux boxes sport bonzer NVIDIA graphics cards.
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;563338166;pp;1
NASA Selects SGI to Provide Largest Shared-Memory System in the World
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| The new system will be the first supercomputer to operate 2,048 processor
| cores and 4TB of memory under a single copy of Linux -- creating the
| largest Linux single system image (SSI) in the world.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM07923072007-1.htm
FlightLinux blasts off again
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| Patrick Stakem wants everyone to know that the newest iteration of
| FlightLinux is not just for NASA rocket scientists. The special hardened
| distribution that earlier this century orbited the Earth on an unmanned
| satellite is set to move into active duty again, this time as a civilian
| project.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/115329
First Public Release of CLARAty Software
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| With this release, a total of 44 CLARAty modules (~100K lines of code) are
| now available under the JPL Open Source License. This release is intended to
| share with the robotics community some of the core robotic modules which were
| jointly developed with NASA Ames Research Center, Carnegie Mellon, and
| University of Minnesota. This first release represents about 10% of all
| CLARAty modules and 30% of the generic modules planned for future release.
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http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/news/newsStory.cfm?NewsID=69
NASA tests Linux for spacecraft control
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| On the software side, embedded Linux vendor Wind River says it was selected
| to "support the development of NASA's New Millennium Program Space Technology
| 8 (ST8) Dependable Multiprocessor." As part of its role in supporting the
| project, the company will supply its Platform for Network Equipment, Linux
| Edition (PNE-LE) for use on the DM system.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5714800202.html
Open-Source Software and Its Role in Space Exploration
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| FOSS explores our Solar System. We send robots to the moon, Mars
| and beyond to flyby, orbit or land. FOSS goes with them, pervasive
| in the real-time operating systems, math libraries and file systems.
| Consider the robotic decisions of where to rove, and realize the power
| given the human race by the Free Software Foundation's (FSF)
| compilers, libraries, build scripts and so on.
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http://www.cio.com/article/111950/Open_Source_Software_and_its_Role_in_Space_Exploration
http://tinyurl.com/2kcyvw
NASA enlists HP in multibillion-dollar tech contract
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| This includes desktop PCs, workstations, and blade PCs enabled to
| run Unix and Linux operating systems; as well as printers and servers.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9722103-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
At NASA, Windows Vista Isn't Ready For Launch
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| Space agency among the growing list of federal agencies that
| have put a temporary hold on Windows Vista rollouts.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199201229
NASA tests Linux-based planetary surface exploration robots
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| A Linux-based NASA lunar rover is on maneuvers -- and Internet webcams
| -- this week in the Arizona desert near Meteor Crater.
|
| [...]
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| The K-10 runs Red Hat Linux, which NASA says was chosen for its large
| user base and application compatibility. Additionally, NASA notes that,
| "Linux's flexibility and scalability enable us to easily add, remove,
| and extend devices with minimal difficulty."
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4892438264.html
Avoiding Hubble trouble: The software plan for NASA's new space telescope
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| "Once you get into millions of lines of code, it's really difficult
| for a new programmer coming onto a project to make a change or
| understand how different subsystems relate to each other," he says.
|
| [...]
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| It's hard to estimate how much money will be saved because of the
| decision to use open standards software. It could be a few million
| dollars, or 10 times that, Cammarata says.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/011907-software-hubble-nasa.html?page=2
NASA Expands Order for Innova Robotics & Automation's Universal Robot
Controller to Enhance Ground Testing
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| In addition, Innova will provide an external clock synchronization
| signal to NASA's Linux-based host PC that will function as the
| "heart beat" that triggers the initiation of commands to the robotic arm.
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=219764
Young Scientists Design Open-Source Program at NASA
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| "NASA is recognizing the value of free and open-source software in
| other sectors," said Cowan-Sharp, a contractor at NASA Ames in
| Mountain View, California. "CosmosCode is going one step further
| by allowing NASA scientists to begin a software project in the
| public domain, leveraging the true value of open-source software
| by creating an active community of volunteers."
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http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2007/04/cosmoscode_0409
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