Re:Starcloud says 1 launch, $8M but ISS tech says 17 launche...
by ddtaylor on Friday June 27, 2025 @02:03AM
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ECC everything?
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Re:Starcloud says 1 launch, $8M but ISS tech says 17 launche...
by dgoldstein0 on Friday June 27, 2025 @02:37AM
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Yes. And most server hardware is already at least ECC ram. You may still want some light radiation shielding to prevent the worst, maybe some heavier shielding for solar flares. But beyond that, simple error correction can be baked into the software - ecc the bootloader and filesystem and you are mostly good to go
Re:Starcloud says 1 launch, $8M but ISS tech says 17 launche...
by josefx on Friday June 27, 2025 @08:17AM
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Isn't ECC only applied to RAM? Do any current gen CPUs have ECC cache?
Re:Starcloud says 1 launch, $8M but ISS tech says 17 launche...
by axoltl on Friday June 27, 2025 @01:06PM
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I can't comment on AMD or Intel but Apple Silicon definitely uses ECC for at least the system level cache. On top of that it performs cache healing (swapping out bad lines for spares) on every cache level every time the system boots.