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Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer"

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In comp.os.linux.misc c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> 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 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.

Optical communication works in space without fibre-optics so I'm
not sure why inter-satellite communication delays would be an
issue.

See this article:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3990472/china-takes-edge-computing-to-orbit-with-first-space-based-processing-network.html

They expect link speeds to match fibre-optics, and avoid the round
trip of Earth -> space -> Earth -> Space -> Earth which satellite
internet networks currently encounter. I was already wondering if
something like this would happen - something like Starlink offering
on-satellite VPSs, but of course everything's AI-focused now while
that hype train is still rolling.

The other thing I was wondering, which the that article also touches
on, is the legal aspect. Already satellite internet allows people to
circumvent content restrictions imposed on terrestrial ISPs in their
country to browse foreign websites. If illegal content like pirated
videos is hosted in space, can anyone force it to be taken down?
Could we get a contellation of pirate and porn satellites that
operate outside the law (assuming the law can be tricked into
letting them get launched)? What if a satellite-server gets hacked?
There's nobody up there to pull the plug, access to it could be
traded illegally for the rest of its lifetime. If a whole
constellation got hacked that could really ammount to something.

Or is this finally a commercial use for space stations - somewhere
that the orbiting internet can be fixed from?

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Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-02 22:20 -0400
  Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-06-04 17:56 +1000
    Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 04:15 -0400
      Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-04 11:44 +0100
        Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-04 23:25 -0400
        Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-05 03:25 +0000
          Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-06 00:10 -0400
        Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-06-06 19:06 +0000
        Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-06 22:47 +0200
          Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-06 22:20 +0100
            Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-06-07 10:19 +0000
              Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-07 11:32 +0100
              Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" Harold Stevens <wookie@aspen.localdomain> - 2025-06-07 07:29 -0500
                Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-07 22:18 -0400
      Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-06-05 09:21 +1000
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          Re: Odd - China Building "Space Supercomputer" not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-06-06 08:25 +1000
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