Learn about Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
Learn about Google's Project Suncatcher, how we’re testing hardware survival for space, designing cooling systems for AI chips, and more. Learn about our early test to scale AI compute in space. In a new video series, the Project Suncatcher team explores the science behind this moonshot, what they've found, and the engineering challenges that remain to be solved.
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Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental 'Data Center' Into Space Next Week
Google is gearing up to launch a fridge-sized data center satellite with the horsepower equivalent of a single server. As the New York Times reports, the prototype satellite is part of the tech giant’s Project Suncatcher. As its name suggests, the goal is to take advantage of unfiltered sunlight around the clock to power AI data centers in our planet’s orbit — instead of crushing the electrical grid, spewing copious amounts of pollution, and draining fresh water supplies back on the ground.
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Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime
Containers have revolutionized how we develop, package, and deploy applications. However, the system surface exposed to containers is broad enough that many security experts don’t recommend them for running untrusted or potentially malicious applications. A growing desire to run more heterogenous and less trusted workloads has created a new interest in sandboxed containers—containers that help provide a secure isolation boundary between the host OS and the application running inside the container.
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