Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer"

https://greekreporter.com/2025/06/03/china-world-first-supercomputer-space/
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  This is kind of strange ...
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  Not entirely sure of the POINT in building anything
  quite like this in orbit.
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  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.
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  'AI' ... maybe some kind of "global mind" is imagined ?
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  '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.
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  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.
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  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.