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SUMMARY:Towards a future space-based\, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design - publication
DESCRIPTION:Exploring a space-based\, scalable AI infrastructure system design: Project Suncatcher is a moonshot exploring a new frontier: equipping solar-powered satellite constellations with TPUs and free-space optical links to one day scale machine learning compute in space. \nArtificial intelligence (AI) is a foundational technology that could reshape our world\, driving new scientific discoveries and helping us tackle humanity’s greatest challenges. Now\, we’re asking where we can go to unlock its fullest potential. The Sun is the ultimate energy source in our solar system\, emitting more power than 100 trillion times humanity’s total electricity production. In the right orbit\, a solar panel can be up to 8 times more productive than on earth\, and produce power nearly continuously\, reducing the need for batteries. In the future\, space may be the best place to scale AI compute. Working backwards from there\, our new research moonshot\, Project Suncatcher\, envisions compact constellations of solar-powered satellites\, carrying Google TPUs and connected by free-space optical links. This approach would have tremendous potential for scale\, and also minimizes impact on terrestrial resources. We’re excited about this growing area of exploration\, and our early research\, shared in a preprint paper “Towards a future space-based\, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design\,”\, which describes our progress toward tackling the foundational challenges of this ambitious endeavor — including high-bandwidth communication between satellites\, orbital dynamics\, and radiation effects on computing. By focusing on a modular design of smaller\, interconnected satellites\, we are laying the groundwork for a highly scalable\, future space-based AI infrastructure. Project Suncatcher is part of Google’s long tradition of taking on moonshots that tackle tough scientific and engineering problems. Like all moonshots\, there will be unknowns\, but it’s in this spirit that we embarked on building a large-scale quantum computer a decade ago — before it was considered a realistic engineering goal — and envisioned an autonomous vehicle over 15 years ago\, which eventually became Waymo and now serves millions of passenger trips around the globe. \nLinks:\nExploring a space-based\, scalable AI infrastructure system design \nGoogle bouwt datacenters in de ruimte
URL:https://www.a3veen.nl/event/towards-a-future-space-based-highly-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design-publication/
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