Asgard computer core

"All our knowledge."

- Thor

For sometime it had been known that the Asgard were a dying race, and after acquiring a deteriorating disease from their last attempt to solve their problem, it was evident to the Asgard themselves that there was nothing left they could do. The Computer Core was the Asgard's legacy, and their way to ensure they were forever remembered by the intergalactic community.

Functions
"The Asgard core was designed to be very user-friendly."

- Samantha Carter

With the extinction of the Asgard race imminent, the Asgard installed a sophisticated computer core on the Tau'ri ship, the Odyssey. This computer core contained all of the Asgard's most up-to-date knowledge as well as their entire recorded history. Included in the computer core was information on all of the Asgard's beaming, time dilation, shields, weapons and hyperdrive technologies etc, and an Asgard Power Core; the time dilation technology being integrated within the core itself. The core is very user friendly, and a user could download a simple program instructing the core to perform a very broad function without needing to have a detailed knowledge of the function and the core would "fill in the blanks". The core could also present a holographic image of any Asgard on record as an interface, intended to assist any humans who do not understand the Asgard language and/or the technologies themselves.

Power Source
"The Asgard computer core is equipped with its own power source that will not infringe on your ship's ZPM."

- Thor

Thor indicated aboard the Odyssey that the Asgard power core had it's own power source. Currently it is unknown if that it uses any power source equivalent to a ZPM, or if it materializes it's own Neutronium for it's Neutrino-ion generators using the Asgard beaming technology, as SG-1 did with their food, supplies, and oxygen while trapped on board the Odyssey. (It may be possible that the computer core has a built-in Neutrino-ion generator, which makes use of the synthesized Neutronium.)