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September 16, 2019 4:45 pm

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Lunar Vacation Planning

The moon’s surface is not exactly a vacation spot – with no atmosphere, a gloomy gray landscape, average temperatures around -300 degrees Fahrenheit, and a lengthy 5-day, 250,000-mile commute from Earth. Yet, being able to use our Moon as a stepping-stone towards Mars and beyond is essential and the research we can […]

Tags: AI, High Performance Computing (HPC), HPE, machine learning, NASA, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing

Categories: Alliance Partners, High Performance Computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing

By: Jeff Reser

June 24, 2019 11:15 pm

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Asteroids, SUSE and Protecting the Planet

“I don’t want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We’d be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist Asteroid Day is […]

Tags: Asteroid Day, High Performance Computing (HPC), NASA, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing

Categories: High Performance Computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing

By: Jeff Reser

June 24, 2018 9:13 am

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Asteroid Day is June 30 – Do you know where your NEOs are?

Asteroid Day is a UN-sanctioned global awareness campaign supporting thousands of independently organized events on June 30th and providing online educational asteroid resources. In support of Asteroid Day, I would like to share a story about an ongoing project at NASA that addresses the asteroid threat to our planet. Oh, by the way, the threat […]

Tags: Ames, Asteroid Day, High Performance Computing, HPC, NASA, SLE HPC

Categories: High Performance Computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing

By: Meike Chabowski

June 29, 2017 4:07 pm

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Celebrating Third Year of Asteroid Day – and Linux is the 'Special Guest'

On June 30th 2017 the world is celebrating the third Asteroid Day. What initially had started as a discussion among the movie makers and astrophysicists, scientists and artists during and around the creation of the end time movie “51 Degrees North” from the German movie director Grigorij S. Richters has become a serious worldwide […]

Tags: asteroid, Asteroid Day, comet, meteor, NASA, Pleiades, space research, supercomputer

Categories: Technical Solutions

By: Meike Chabowski

May 27, 2017 11:08 am

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A Tale of Three Cool Technologies at LinuxFest NW 2017

The following article has been contributed by Carla Schroder, Technical Writer at the SUSE Documentation Team. In my needlessly-humble opinion, one of the most vital elements in FOSS is building bridges to new contributors. A fine way to do this is to lower the barriers to entry with amazing fun hardware. […]

Tags: FOSS, invention, Linux, LinuxFest, littleBits, NASA, new technology

Categories: Expert Views

By: Meike Chabowski

June 30, 2015 11:56 am

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How Linux Affects Asteroids

Today - June 30th - is Asteroid Day, a day aimed at bringing the world together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet, our families, communities and future generations. Asteroid Day is held on the anniversary of the 1908 Siberian Tunguska event, the largest asteroid impact on Earth […]

Tags: ESA, High Performance Computing, HPC, Linux for HPC, NASA, scientific research

Categories: Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Technical Solutions