HPE's Spaceborne Computer 4 to run AI on the Moon aboard Astrolab's FLIP rover

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will send its fourth-generation Spaceborne Computer to the Moon later this year aboard Astrolab's FLIP rover under NASA's CLPS program. The system, with two mirrored 1 TB Kioxia SSDs, will run AI and HPC experiments, including LLM tests with RAG and HPL and HPCG benchmarks, during a year-long mission.

• SBC4 carries two mirrored 1 TB Kioxia SSDs in a software RAID 1
• Experiments include LLM tests with RAG plus HPL and HPCG benchmarks
• Astrolab's FLIP rover rides the Griffin-1 lander to the lunar south pole
• The mission lasts a year with 14-day night cycles