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News Release from: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 April 2006

FPGAs set to enable supercomputing in
space

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Los Alamos National Laboratory has received funding for a new space payload which dramatically increases on-orbit computational capabilities.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has received funding for a new space payload which dramatically increases on-orbit computational capabilities The project is jointly sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Office of Nonproliferation Research and Development (NA-22), and the US Department of Defense

The experimental payload will demonstrate and validate technologies offering more than 1000 billion operations-per-second processing capability for software-defined radio (SDR) functions in space.