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Posted by speckx 1 day ago

How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer(cacm.acm.org)
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hpcgroup 11 hours ago|
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veunes 8 hours ago||
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temptemptemp111 17 hours ago||
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perarneng 18 hours ago||
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ConanRus 1 day ago||
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hulitu 19 hours ago||
They run 2 Outlook instances. For redundancy. /s
huxleyFiddler 14 hours ago||
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treesknees 13 hours ago||
Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Davidbrcz 14 hours ago||
> Dissimilar redundancy eliminates that risk. A completely different OS, different codebase, different development team.

Not entirely true. I've heard during my uni years of a case were two independent teams used the same textbook for implementing a feature, which had an error, and thus resulting in the same failure mode.

ragebol 13 hours ago||
Ha, very curious what the issue was and what textbook
ajaystream 18 hours ago||
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adrian_b 17 hours ago||
This is similar to the difference between using error-correcting codes and using erasure codes combined with error-detecting codes.

The latter choice is frequently simpler and more reliable for preventing data corruption. (An erasure code can be as simple as having multiple copies and using the first good copy.)

sammy2255 17 hours ago|||
Spoken like an LLM.
randomNumber7 13 hours ago|||
> make each unit responsible for detecting its own faults and shutting up if it can't guarantee correctness

Does this mean you have to trust the already compromised system?

high_na_euv 16 hours ago||
How you can remove component from decision set if it is the only component in the whole decision set?
seemaze 23 hours ago||
and yet.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615490
adrian_b 22 hours ago|
That was a laptop, not one of the Artemis computers.
GautamB13 16 hours ago|
It kinda crazy how this mission didn't become mainstream media until as of late.