HPSC Evaluation

This project would enable Engineers and Scientists to get early hands-on opportunities with the High Performance Space Computing (HPSC) Evaluation cards to build expertise and demonstrate concepts. Scientists and Engineers have collected several applications and use cases that are currently too demanding to execute on the current State of the Art offering of rad hard processors. This project would develop and evaluate those use cases on HPSC hardware, benchmark results and provide comparison to our existing known processor architectures. These results will be critically important to inform processor selection and science formulation boundaries for future mission concepts.

HPSC will offer game changing processing capabilities, and open opportunities for entirely new science mission and operations concepts. GSFC has the experience, and ambition to lead the way in developing those new mission concepts. This IRAD effort enables engineers to operate the HPSC Eval cards, benchmark performance of applications, evaluate flight software, and compile the results to inform NASA strategy for future mission opportunities.

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