Probing the cosmic causes of errors in supercomputers
Abstract
Cosmic rays from outer space are causing errors in supercomputers. The neutrons that pass through the CPU may be causing binary data to flip leading to incorrect calculations. Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed detectors to determine how much data is being corrupted by these cosmic particles.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1434300
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; COSMIC RAYS; SUPERCOMPUTING; SUPERCOMPUTERS; SINGLE-EVENT UPSETS; COSMIC RADIATION NEUTRONS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; ELECTRONIC CHIPS
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abstractNote = {Cosmic rays from outer space are causing errors in supercomputers. The neutrons that pass through the CPU may be causing binary data to flip leading to incorrect calculations. Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed detectors to determine how much data is being corrupted by these cosmic particles.},
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year = {Tue Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Apr 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
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