Memories of Space

Space is poised to become the next big market for digital electronics.  Not only are growing satellite networks bringing Internet access to all corners of the earth today, but the future promises a ballooning number of such systems ranging from large defense networks like the US’ proposed Golden Dome array, which promises to launch thousands of small satellites coordinated to protect against intercontinental ballistic missiles, to current tests that will lead to space-based distributed datacenters.  All of these systems must deal with high levels of radiation and challenges with energy consumption and heat dissipation.  These issues may require abandoning DRAM and NAND flash, both of which are radiation-sensitive energy hogs, in favor of one of the new memory technologies gaining adoption today.  Listen to this presentation, delivered by noted industry analysts Tom Coughlin of Coughlin Associates and Jim Handy of Objective Analysis to learn not only why and how this change will occur, but also to discover how a distributed space system design, and the adoption of low-energy memories, will create changes in software and systems architecture that will ripple through and revolutionize terrestrial datacenter design.