Space-Based Data Centres: A Paradigm for Data Processing and Scientific Investigations

Periola, A. A.; Kolawole, Michael O.

doi:10.1007/s11277-019-06242-z

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“…Nevertheless, data centres should be sited in high population density regions to comply with data retention policies while realizing a low LUE and WF. In realizing a low LUE and WF in high population density regions, the use of aerial 7 , space-based 25 – 28 and underwater data centres, are beneficial.…”

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Networked computing systems for bio-diversity and environmental preservation

Periola

Alonge

Ogudo

2022

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Computing platforms have a high water footprint that poses threat to biodiversity preservation. The high water footprint reduces water availability for habitat preservation. Hence, approaches that reduce the water footprint are needful. The presented research proposes an approach that reduces the need for water in future computing platforms. It proposes a hybrid computing platform that comprises terrestrial and non-terrestrial computing platforms. The performance benefit of using hybrid computing platforms is evaluated using the novel water potential metric. The water potential (WP) quantifies the need for water (for cooling) by computing platforms. A low WP shows that computing platforms have reduced the need for water and indicates better performance than a high WP from the perspective of reducing water footprint. Evaluation is done via performance formulation and stochastic simulation of the WP metric. Analysis shows that using the hybrid computing platform instead of the existing approach that utilizes only water-cooled terrestrial data centres reduces the WP by (4.9–93) % on average.

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Section: Solution—realizing Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Networked computing systems for bio-diversity and environmental preservation

Periola

Alonge

Ogudo

2022

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“…Siting data centres in space can reduce the water foot print [16][17][18][19]. The approach in [16,18] utilizes small satellites to realize space based data centres.…”

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Space Habitat Data Centers – For Future Computing

Periola¹,

Alonge²,

Ogudo³

2020

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Data from sensor bearing satellites requires processing aboard terrestrial data centers that use water for cooling at the expense of high data transfer latency. The reliance of terrestrial data centers on water increases their water footprint and limits the availability of water for other applications. Therefore, data centers with low data transfer latency and reduced reliance on earth’s water resources are required. This paper proposes space habitat data centers (SHDCs) with low latency data transfer and that use asteroid water to address these challenges. The paper investigates the feasibility of accessing asteroid water and the reduction in computing platform access latency. Results show that the mean asteroid water access period is 319.39 days. The use of SHDCs instead of non-space computing platforms reduces access latency and increases accessible computing resources by (11.9% – 33.6%) and (46.7% – 77%) on average respectively.

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Space Habitat Data Centers—For Future Computing

2020

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Data from sensor-bearing satellites requires processing aboard terrestrial data centres that use water for cooling at the expense of high data-transfer latency. The reliance of terrestrial data centres on water increases their water footprint and limits the availability of water for other applications. Therefore, data centres with low data-transfer latency and reduced reliance on Earth’s water resources are required. This paper proposes space habitat data centres (SHDCs) with low latency data transfer and that use asteroid water to address these challenges. The paper investigates the feasibility of accessing asteroid water and the reduction in computing platform access latency. Results show that the mean asteroid water access period is 319.39 days. The use of SHDCs instead of non-space computing platforms reduces access latency and increases accessible computing resources by 11.9–33.6% and 46.7–77% on average, respectively.

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Space-Based Data Centres: A Paradigm for Data Processing and Scientific Investigations

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Networked computing systems for bio-diversity and environmental preservation

Networked computing systems for bio-diversity and environmental preservation

Space Habitat Data Centers – For Future Computing

Space Habitat Data Centers—For Future Computing

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