A group of 100 scientists, engineers, and developers are working together for a bid at Google’s Lunar X Prize, a $30 million award to the first private funded team to land a rover on the moon. Any bid will require tons of work in computations, hardware, and physics, but the German team is beefing up their systems with the power of NVidia Tesla GPU’s.
The PTS team will benefit from the Tesla GPUs at all stages of the mission. During preparation and planning, GPUs will be used to simulate millions of different mission scenarios. This will enable the team to improve launch and landing techniques by, for example, adjusting the timing and duration of thruster burns for course corrections, while minimizing the margin of error.
Once Asimov has reached its destination, the PTS team will use the computational power of Tesla GPUs to navigate and monitor the rover’s activities and generate highly detailed lunar maps from the transmitted stereoscopic 3D images.
via NVIDIA Helps Power Bid for 2015 Moon Mission — and $30 Million in Prizes – NVIDIA Newsroom.
