NVIDIA would rather bring open source to Antarctica than Linux.
Very nice they are doing that, but you know what would be a real altruism move ? Open up the source for Nvidia Chips so projects like OpenBSD and the other BSDs can run on hardware from Nvidia.
> SAEF (Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Feature)
What exactly is an “Environmental Feature?” I would think Antarctica has multiple.
Is this Nvidia's repentance for the crypto mining and price gouging?
*Antarctica
Having been in technology, antarctic research, and remote monitoring of environmental systems down there, my take: don't read into this this too much.
This is mostly a PR piece, probably pushed by the university or non-profit researchers involved. They are trying to use some sort of partnership with NVIDIA (as loose as that partnership might be) to draw attention and show they are having "Broader Impacts" for their impact statement.
Most eco research is based on historical comparisons of months/years/decades of data So the use of real-time/streaming data down there is pretty limited. You can just as easily shove the data into storage and have a researcher pick it up next time they go down (often *much* easier as you don't have to worry about powering comms systems).
Climate/weather data may be different, if only because some of the data might go into current/real-time weather models. But even there, it's probably a stretch (I know of very little work being done with anything near real-time as far as data goes down there).