<div dir="ltr">I would be a bit more concerned about radiation doses to the personnel! This is well studied of course, and I believe DNA has its own ECC codes.<div><br></div><div>Spiralling dangerously off subject, if I am not wrong Concorde crews were issued with radiation film badges.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 August 2017 at 19:12, Jeffrey Layton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laytonjb@gmail.com" target="_blank">laytonjb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>A friend of mine, Mark Fernandez, is the lead engineer on this project. He works for SGI (now HPE). They are putting two servers onto the ISS and are going to be running tests for a while. I don't know too many details except this. Oh! I do know they won't give you SSH access to the servers (already asked).<br><br></div>I'm guessing they are gathering radiation impact on the memory of the system (cache and all), to see what happens. Probably check the health of the system too. Maybe when it comes back to Earth they will test it again and then pull it apart to look for changes. <br><br></div>Jeff<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 4:30 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">beowulf@beowulf.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>The Daily Mail is (shall we say) a rather right-wing daily newspaper in the UK. It may give some flavour if I tell you that is most famous/infamous headline is "Hurrha for the Blackshirts" (1934)</div><div><br></div><div>A surprisingly good article on using HPC and a visualisation wall to mode ocean currents.</div><div><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4775872/NASA-supercomputer-simulation-reveals-ocean-current-motion.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci<wbr>encetech/article-4775872/NASA-<wbr>supercomputer-simulation-revea<wbr>ls-ocean-current-motion.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>I would not delve into the Comments section though...</div><div>I believe Mr T from the A TeamĀ is commenting here:</div><div>"Learn physics fool. If you are the religious type then god created the laws of physics, so must be true; if not then the laws of physics describe what we observe so therefore must be true. Either way they are true. Learn them!"</div><div><br></div><div>Hmmm.. .perhaps this person has a big future in HPC user support. "Its your bug, fool!"<span><br><br>Read more: <a style="color:rgb(0,51,153)" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4775872/NASA-supercomputer-simulation-reveals-ocean-current-motion.html#ixzz4piTozmPo" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci<wbr>encetech/article-4775872/NASA-<wbr>supercomputer-simulation-revea<wbr>ls-ocean-current-motion.html#<wbr>ixzz4piTozmPo</a> <br></span><br></div></div>
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