NASA Supercomputers Lagging Behind, Causing Mission Delays and Security Risks
• NASA's supercomputers rely on old CPU technology - one system has 18,000 CPUs but only 48 GPUs
• This is causing mission delays and impacting NASA's ability to meet exploration, research, and science goals
• Transitioning to GPUs would offer more computational power for workloads involving parallel processing
• NASA's high-end computing operations are not centrally managed, leading to inefficiencies
• Security controls for the infrastructure are often bypassed or not implemented, increasing cyber attack risk