「 Voyager was the first unmanned mission to include distributed computing, partly because the sheer number of tasks to be executed with precision during the high-stakes planetary fly-bys would exceed the capabilities of any single computer that could be made flyable. There was a social engineering angle to this as well, in that it kept the various engineering teams from competing for resources from a single computer 」
A thing that makes the #Voyager bugfix so compelling: at no point has "throw more GPUs/nodes/buckets/bandwidth at it" been a solution. Not at any budget.
Ihr #StarTrek liebenden Pay-Streaming-Verweigerer da draußen, höret meine Worte:
Auf #Tele5 beginnt, nachdem #Voyager geendet hat, gerade wieder #DasNächsteJahrhundert bzw #TheNextGeneration oder #TNG mit Staffel 1 Folge 1.
Noch für 5 Tage lässt sich die erste Folge in der Mediathek nachträglich ansehen und, wenn ihr am Ball bleibt, nach & nach alle Folgen der Serie nach Ausstrahlung im TV.
Viel Vergnügen!
Ich gebe es mir auf jeden Fall (nochmal) 🤗
Read a few of the stories about #Voyager 1’s memory problems, but people don’t say how it was organized.
If the failed chip contained whole words, then just that chunk of memory would fail. If it contained one bit of many words, all those words would be affected.
That suggests a design rule for long running spacecraft - use whole word memory devices so a failure doesn’t knock out even more memory. Same for chip design, put related bits nearby on the chip. Wonder if they have this rule…
Yay! Thanks, more than 50 years old engineers that thought of almost anything for a mission that was not supposed to last this long… and thanks to the current engineers that are carrying the torch!
I bet that was tricky. It’s over 15 billion miles away, 24 billion kilometers. 136.3 AU. Almost nineteen light-hours away. That’s pretty far.
The probe is 47 years old. Younger than me! If I’d gotten my shit together, I could be at least 140 AU out from the sun by now. Well, I didn’t. Another opportunity passed me by. #Voyager#VoyagerI
Today, April 22, is Ancestor’s Eve, an evening of reflection in honor of those who came before. The holiday was established by Neelix in 2375 and celebrated on board USS Voyager, NCC-74656 (Star Trek: Voyager, s05e23 “11:59”, 1995)
As someone who was barely 4 years old when #VOY went off the air, I would like at least one (1) #StarTrek series to make it to 7 seasons at least once in my waking memory...