HPE to run first supercomputer benchmarks on the Moon

HPE will send its fanless Spaceborne Computer-4 to the lunar south pole on an Astrolab FLIP rover under NASA's CLPS program in late 2026. The module, with 1TB of Kioxia storage, a low-power CPU and a small GPU, will run HPCG benchmarks and AI workloads including LLM retrieval-augmented generation, vision inference and LiDAR processing.

• Launch on a Falcon Heavy is slated for Q4 2026
• Module is graphics-card sized with 1TB Kioxia storage, CPU and small GPU
• NASA will test its FLUID neural network and an LLM for onboard documents
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