I wish them luck. Having been on the periphery of similar projects back in the 1990's that were trying off the shelf parts they will need to make sure that they have multiple systems and that I am guessing their first test box is going to run in the Van Allen belts to give a good test on "high" radiation environments.
Posted Sep 18, 2013 23:19 UTC (Wed) by dchichkov (subscriber, #90878)
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Interesting approach. Virtual machines instead of hardened hardware. I would guess it is going to be soft real time are a result. With jitter on the level of hundreds of microseconds... Scary.
Not sure what could be an alternative. Perhaps a C compiler that generates radiation hardened executable code?
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Posted Sep 19, 2013 1:30 UTC (Thu) by MrMorden (subscriber, #62781)
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Physical machines could still handle the RT while coming in under the cost and power budget of a rad-hardened processor. So that just leaves the mass budget.
Besides which, there's no way you could get Kerbal to run on a Rad750. (Sorry; had to get a KSP reference in this thread somehow.)
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Posted Sep 19, 2013 1:50 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
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But you could get a Kerbal to run a Rad750 in the test environment :D . Poor Jebediah :( .
