While NASA won’t be launching any more rockets for a while, HP seems to be stepping in and just announced Project Moonshot. In a nod to the history of NASA’s original space race to the moon, they have even named the first “launch” platform “Redstone”, like the original rocket that Amareica’s first astronaut, Alan Shepard rode into space. Moreover, the future road map which projects out to 2015, and perhaps beyond, is even named Pathfinder, the probe that went to Mars.
In the race for data center “space”, mindshare and future computing architecture, HP seems to be trying to take “One small step for micropower computing, one giant step for hyperscale computing”(with my apologies to Neil Armstrong).