Starcloud

#1

Post by wiley1454 » Tue, May 13, 2025, 8:13 PM UTC

https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf

Starcloud
ycombinator.com

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#2

Post by jklinger410 » Tue, May 13, 2025, 9:18 PM UTC

Dang that's very cool. As long as up and down bandwidth stay strong and reliable.

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#3

Post by justanotheratom » Tue, May 13, 2025, 9:20 PM UTC

wow, one year back, I had made a prediction to a friend that this is the direction that Starlink will head in. I was thinking it would proceed like this:

1. provide internet. 2. provide CDN. 3. Edge Compute. 4. Full-on cloud.

These guys see to be focussing on what is basically offline processing (AI training).

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#4

Post by alanfranz » Tue, May 13, 2025, 9:23 PM UTC

jklinger410 wrote: post #2

Dang that's very cool. As long as up and down bandwidth stay strong and reliable.

I doubt you need that much bandwidth or reliability. Training is “on site”, you just need to upload training material once, then download the trained model.

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#5

Post by zamalek » Tue, May 13, 2025, 9:25 PM UTC

What does space give us that Earth does not in this scenario? Free real estate? They only mention falling costs for deployment.

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#6

Post by ceejayoz » Tue, May 13, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

Isn’t cooling already a major issue for spacecraft?

The big radiators on the ISS can only dump a few server racks worth of heat.

Re: Starcloud

#7

Post by thekoma » Tue, May 13, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

How does “passive cooling” work in space?

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#8

Post by tux3 » Tue, May 13, 2025, 9:28 PM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #5

What does space give us that Earth does not in this scenario? Free real estate? They only mention falling costs for deployment.

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#9

Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 13, 2025, 9:28 PM UTC

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#10

Post by brador » Tue, May 13, 2025, 9:29 PM UTC

Solar Radiation and bitrot/damage, how you solving it? Whats your shielding stack?