beowulf in space

[Joel Jaeggli]

high levels of ionizing radiation can induce shorts in semi-conductor 
junctions... if you short a junction that has a voltage source behind it 
you can do serious damage to whatevers on the other side. then you have 
issues like higher instanaces of single bit errors, need for all ceramic 
chip packages, and probably a couple other things I've already 
forgotten. Taken as a whole they make substantial redesign necessary for 
components that were not desgined to work in this environment from the 
outset. 

The other thing to keep in mind is that hardening systems against nuclear 
attacks is a substantially different exercise given the short term nature 
of that particular radiation exposure...

joelja



On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Mof wrote:


> Ok excuse my ignorance, but what is involved in rad harding hardware ?
> Is the cost really necessary, in that couldn't you put the unprotected 
> hardware into some sort of shielded container ?
> Or am I just being silly ? :-)
> 
> Mof.
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