<p>On April 1st 2013, Pablo Rodriguez Pina, founder and co-director of the Perth (Western Australia) based software company announced the company is planning to deploy a GlassFish cluster on Stellites spinning around Earth's stratosphere.</p><p>The company, which specializes in cross platform Enterprise Application Development using the Java Platform is currently performing rocket launch tests to deploy a matrix of 108 satellites which will be spinning on Earth's orbit from April 1st 2018.</p><p>The satellites forming cluster consist of seven 0.89 Kw solar panels connected to 24 racks containing a 32 x 32 matrix of RaspBerry PI Model B revision 2 units. Each rack is connected to the satellite with a 256 meter long PoEaE (Power Over Ethernet And Ethernet) cable which is yet to become available commercially. The racks will be distributed in a dish shape topology covering a 512 meter diameter.</p><p>Pablo Rodriguez, notably excited during the announcement, described the reasons behind the choice for the Raspberry PI: "The main factors during the hardware evaluation were power consumption, versatility, cost and of course weight. We tried over 70 different types of hardware ranging from supercomputers such as yet unreleased version of a SPARC SuperCluster T6 to Standard Intel I7 based Servers, standalone ARM boards, and even Java Cards. And to the surprise of many we found the ARM board to be the most suitable alternative. Our main goal for the cluster was to have the highest availability in history. With this topology, each satellite has a total of 24,576 Raspberry PI Units. With 108 satellites, we are looking at a network of 2.5 million standalone computer systems in orbit. We considered all sort of adverse circumstances such as units damaged due to G forces during launch, solar flares hitting the satellites satellites and a long list of other almost unthinkable scenarios."</p><p><a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/software/company/prweb10587984.htm">Keep reading...</a></p>