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adastra22yesterday at 10:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

Starlink runs special rad-hard computers from AMD. None of that transfers to top of the line GPUs. This is crazy.


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debatem1yesterday at 10:42 PM

SpaceX supposedly mostly runs non-rad-hard parts, the ostensible reason being because its more cost effective to double or triple up than buy specialty equipment. Do you have a source for this?

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eldenringyesterday at 10:38 PM

Google tested the radiation tolerance of tpus which include hbm and they performed fine. https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalabl...

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