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Springer, P.

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Development of a Spaceborne Embedded Cluster

Over the last decade and continuing into the foreseeable future, a trend has developed in the spacecraft industry of both number of missions and the amount of data taken by each mission increasing faster than bandwidth capabilities to send these data to Earth.

parallel processing message passing fault toleranc

PVM Support for Clusters

The latest version of PVM (3.4.3) now contains support for a PC cluster running Linux, also known as a Beowulf system. A PVM user of a computer outside the Beowulf system can add the Beowulf as a single machine.

Beowulf PVM cluster interactive supercomputing

Ionizing radiation effects on SBP9900 microprocessor

The radiation resistance of a 16-bit microprocessor based on integrated injection logic technology has been investigated. Cumulative fluences of 10 to the 12th power to 10 to the 14th power e/sq cm were used in the radiation-resistance study. Complete failure of the microprocessor was noted at a fluence level of 1.2 times 10 to the 14th power e/sq cm. Though the radiation resistance of the microprocessor makes it suited for space applications, reductions in the power dissipation of the device are needed.

Stanley, A. G.