Self-healing computers for NASA spacecraft

[mrintech]

As you can guess, hardwired computer systems are much faster than general-purpose ones because they are designed to do a single task. But when they fail, they need to be totally reconfigured. This can be just a costly problem in a lab on Earth, but it can be vital in space. This is why a University of Arizona (UA) team is working with NASA to design self-healing computer systems for spacecraft (http://uanews.org/node/19382). The UA engineers are working on hybrid hardware/software systems using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to develop these reconfigurable processing systems. As said the lead researcher, 'Our objective is to go beyond predicting a fault to using a self-healing system to fix the predicted fault before it occurs.

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[Sumeet_naik]

Kewl.. Feels like da concept is right out from iron man anime..

[mrintech]

Kewl.. Feels like da concept is right out from iron man anime..

But the concept is quite innovative for sure

[Sumeet_naik]

Will agree only if they make it. But gotta give it to Stan Lee for thinking so much into the animations he created..

[mrintech]

^^^ agree with you :)

[iinfi]

end of day for hardware engineers ... one day...

[mrintech]

end of day for hardware engineers ... one day...

But this will be the case not here at India and other developing countries :D

[ax3]

agreed with @Sumeet_naik ...... +1 ....

bt hey r these ppl creating an intelligent computers .... with great AI ....

hope they dont turn against us ..... [terminator series] .......